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The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived. 40 x $250k = $10m 1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m --
by omni 5y ago
The Falcon 9 should be pro-rated since some of the mission payload survived.
40 x $250k = $10m
1 falcon9 launch * (40 / 49) = $24.5m
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$34.5m
- brianwawok 5y agoIsn’t that retail cost of launch? Since they own the spaceships it should be 1/2 or less of the retail price.
- soheil 5y agoThat's the money they would have made and since I assume they don't any marketing that'd be the total realized cost.
- ncallaway 5y agoThat would work if they had sold all of their capacity, but I think there's plenty of unfilled Falcon 9 capacity. I don't think every Starlink launch could be replaced by a paying customer.
- brianwawok 5y agoI don't think any would, it's all spare capacity.
- mannerheim 5y agoThere might be the opportunity cost of a doing a retail launch instead, but I would guess for the Starlink launches, if they weren't launching them they wouldn't be launching anything at all, so you're probably right.
- soheil 5y agoAnother way to think about is that the cost to launch the remaining 9 went up to $3.3m/satellite instead of 612k/satellite.
- FredPret 5y agoThat’s a lot of money… but also, it’s forty internet sattelites, so maybe it’s actually shockingly cheap!