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It might be a "build it and they will come" thing, but what is the current market for super-heavy payloads?
by the8472 9y ago
It might be a "build it and they will come" thing, but what is the current market for super-heavy payloads?
- mpweiher 9y agoBy making the booster bigger, you have much more margin for making everything reusable. And once everything is reusable, marginal costs approach the cost of fuel rather than the cost of the rocket. And of course, you can put more than one payload on a booster. After all, we don't have a single 747 for each passenger, or for each package we fly.
- lmm 9y agoAt the moment? Large satellites, ISS modules, one-off scientific missions (e.g. Mars rovers, JWST, a mooted Europa mission). Musk has said BFR is very much about Mars colonisation.