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The Falcon Heavy can take 21 tons to GTO, but for $90 million you can only take 6.4 tons. I.e. 21 tons is the max payload, and the guide price they're giving i
by votingprawn 11y ago
The Falcon Heavy can take 21 tons to GTO, but for $90 million you can only take 6.4 tons.
I.e. 21 tons is the max payload, and the guide price they're giving is just for 6.5 tons.
- piquadrat 11y agoI guess the reason for that discrepancy is that for the $90m price tag, SpaceX wants to re-use the first stage cores. In re-usable configuration, quite a bit of the fuel has to be used for the re-entry burns. Still interesting that they advertise the re-use price, while not having successfully landed a single core yet (admittedly, they came really close to a successful landing a couple of times).