PARIS — Cubesat constellation operator Spire, which is trying to develop its satellite-manufacturing know-how into a separate profit center, is offering to launch 20 payloads on 20 satellites in 12 months or less for 10 million euros ($11.6 million).
Spire Chief Executive Peter Platzer, offering Amazon Web Services as a parallel, said payload customers could benefit from Spire’s large sunk cost in satellite design and constellation operations just as AWS customers can buy cloud services for next to nothing.
“It used to take a decade, a . . .
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