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SpaceX needs $kg to orbit to be much lower for their Mars plans to be possible. It is planning on their starship and superheavy rocket combo to bring down curre
by njarboe 6y ago
SpaceX needs $kg to orbit to be much lower for their Mars plans to be possible. It is planning on their starship and superheavy rocket combo to bring down current launch costs by a factor of around 100 in the long term. A factor of two improvement in costs is not interesting to them.
- Someone 6y agoMost of the time, you get an improvement by a factor of 100 not by two of a factor of 10, but by hundreds of a factor close to 1. I think they would be very happy to get a factor of 2 in one step. It would only 7 such steps to get that factor of 100. Having said that, they aren’t aiming for the most modern rocket technology as that implies “less well tested”, and will be less reliable. They’re building T-34s, not Tiger tanks.