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> Ok, Falcon 9 costs 62M$ just to bring something on earth orbit. That is false. Where are you getting your info? Falcon 9 costs a lot less than that to delive
by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> Ok, Falcon 9 costs 62M$ just to bring something on earth orbit.
That is false. Where are you getting your info? Falcon 9 costs a lot less than that to deliver cargo to LEO! And the price is dropping every day.
> Why you would ever think that 40M$ worth of tickets to bring a BFR on Mars would be profitable?
There's no need to be condescending. First, I did not state at any point that $40M per launch would be profitable! Please don't make things up and say I said them. I merely stated a large source of revenue. I said there would be other sources as well, I made a big point about that!
Elon has stated many times that the Starship/BFR would cost less to launch than the Falcon 1, amortized over many reusable launches. Falcon 1, not even Falcon 9. So the cost of launching a Starship would be dramatically lower than your made-up numbers.
- tigershark 8y agoOk it’s 50m now, still speaking about earth orbit
- whatislovecraft 8y agoSource!? Falcon 9 cost is not even public is it? Your number is wayyyy too high to match with current SpaceX economics I think.
- tigershark 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9 If you have a better source feel free to update the page. However I think that it will be much more costly a travel of more than 50M km rather than less that 50K.
- whatislovecraft 8y agoThose are external costs to customers, not internal SpaceX costs I believe. Super different because the profit margin is hidden there.
- mr_toad 8y agohttps://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities https://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities