Falcon 9 is a new rocket without a lot of statistics about mission success rate. They had a few failed launches in 2015 and 2016. This makes launching your payl

Falcon 9 is a new rocket without a lot of statistics about mission success rate. They had a few failed launches in 2015 and 2016. This makes launching your payload on a Falcon 9 more risky and you have to pay a higher insurance premium, than if you were to launch on a Soyuz rocket (all large payloads are insured). If they can get more successful launches under their belt, it will lower their risk and make insurance premiums go down. Then they can up their prices.