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Those "unless"'s are _kind_ of the point of the article.
by lukeify 7y ago
Those "unless"'s are _kind_ of the point of the article.
- zamadatix 7y agoBut the "unless"'s apply to everyone else 10x more, they just don't make for as good of a headline since "it's hard" has already been talked to death.
- breakyerself 7y agoSpaceX has a huge price advantage on launches so a competitor would have to be able to significantly undercut them on the cost of the hardware just to become competetive.
- woodandsteel 7y agoRight. The article really should have included that.
- new_realist 7y agoSatellite costs, not launch costs, dominate. And then there is Vulcan and other cheap launch competitors coming online.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> Satellite costs, not launch costs, dominate. Starlink is promising well under a million per satellite, and OneWeb is reportedly already at a million. Satellite costs might end up lower than launch costs, and even if they're higher that doesn't seem like they'll dominate.
- SEJeff 7y agoWhich are paper rockets until they actually launch, land, and refly successfully.
- mrep 7y agoThat may be true for heavy ones that are only ever built once but these are light and mass produced. I cannot find the source but I'm pretty sure elon musk said that the rocket costs more to build than all of the satellites on a launch.