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$5M is rather low, and 10 launches rather high, for the time being. First-stage reuse would likely cut prices by 33-75% for the first decade; More than that i
by mapt 10y ago
$5M is rather low, and 10 launches rather high, for the time being. First-stage reuse would likely cut prices by 33-75% for the first decade; More than that is going to require a significant expansion of the satellite market, which takes time.
The best market prospect for cheap launch is probably the re-advent of LEO communication constellations, which will each require hundreds to thousands of satellites along tens of orbital planes (adding tens of launches to the global manifest per network).