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This feels like so little money. It's an impressive accomplishment that this is so feasible. Spacecraft development is practically cheaper than aircraft develop
by rektide 5y ago
This feels like so little money. It's an impressive accomplishment that this is so feasible. Spacecraft development is practically cheaper than aircraft development. Of course, launch costs will be, ahem, astnonomical. But the ability to quickly get a disaster support package anywhere, fast, that would be remarkable. I'm imagining a telecomm and power lackage being rapid deployed to Tonga.
It'd be so interesting to see if indeed there is a lot more versatility latent in these SpaceX launch systems, waiting to be eeked out.
- sitkack 5y agoKg for Kg cost for small amounts of Kg, either moved via plan or the surface, using a reusable rocket could be much cheaper even when not accounting for time. If the military wanted to move 4k-kg to anywhere on earth, what would it cost them? All in, I think many many places would be in the single digit millions.