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Does the price of a launch completely cover the cost of construction (excluding R&D)?

• usrusr 8y ago
  It does, for the competition, and there is no reason for SpaceX to go much lower as long as they don't build excessive overcapacity that needs to be filled.
• nickik 8y ago
  Yes. They actually improved a lot of rocket construction and that's why they were cheaper then everybody else BEFORE re-usability. Now re-usability they just increase the profit. Until somebody else challenges their price, they can get huge profit from every launch.