Timeline for Why would space traders pick up and offload their goods from an orbiting platform rather than direct to the planet?
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| Aug 1, 2022 at 16:12 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | To add to this answer, if it's just as cheap to land goods in China from an orbital distribution center as it is Canada, then not only do you want a global distribution center, but it pays to put that distribution center in orbit because even though it's cheaper to build a global distribution center on the ground, once you land there, you then have to pay again for shipping to move stuff to other more regional distribution centers adding cost to shipping | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 5:12 | comment | added | Nij | See also, "hub-and-spoke model" in public transport, for much the same reasons. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 2:28 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |