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>>wiley1+(OP)
What does space give us that Earth does not in this scenario? Free real estate? They only mention falling costs for deployment.

>>zamale+ub
There's an answer in their whitepaper[0] - see Table 1. tl;dr - power is continuous and free via solar array

[0] - https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

>>dilyev+vc
Free in the sense of astronomical capital and operational costs.

>>richar+ze
r&d sure, not sure about ops as you can probably just detach a faulty module and launch a replacement.

>>dilyev+1f
Stationkeeping is not free, satellite monitoring is not free, and any replacement to any component is now a multi-year, at least 1+ million dollar affair (or most likely a complete replacement, since not many satellites have done in-situ repairs).