Ryan McEntush
@rmcentush · Nov 1, 2025
each starlink v3 appears to have ~100 kW of solar (based on array dimensions). starship should carry ~50–100 per flight — call it ~6 MW nameplate per launch at 60 sats.
spacex applied for ~30k sats → ~3 GW of orbital solar in total
if starship hits even conservative projected
Elon Musk@elonmusk· Oct 31, 2025@SciGuySpace Simply scaling up Starlink V3 satellites, which have high speed laser links would work.
SpaceX will be doing this.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Starship could deliver 100GW/year to high Earth orbit within 4 to 5 years if we can solve the other parts of the equation.
100TW/year is possible from a lunar base producing solar-powered AI satellites locally and accelerating them to escape velocity with a mass driver.
06:22 AM · November 2, 2025 · 1.4M views
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