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I don't believe the $10 mil figure for one second. That'd mean a Raptor engine would cost less than $1 mil and that just can't be true - that'd be about half t
by qayxc 6y ago
I don't believe the $10 mil figure for one second.
That'd mean a Raptor engine would cost less than $1 mil and that just can't be true - that'd be about half the price of a much smaller and less complex Merlin engine...
- iso1631 6y agoThey're heading towards that $1m per engine, but that price includes development effort. The cost to make 1000 engines is not going to be 10 times the price of making 100 engines, the more that are made, the better they get at making them
- qayxc 6y agoHeading there doesn't mean the engines they're currently using are already at that point.
- iso1631 6y agoWe have no idea what the marginal cost of the engine is, but it's far lower than the total cost of developing an engine, and the more they build the closer they get to $1m, $500k and towards the $250k target But even if it were $2m, there's 3 engines, that's $6m, leaving $4m for a bit of steel out of that $10m budget.