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Not in the medical field, but space flight? I think the point is that technology that has to constantly progress to stay relevant doesn’t stay cheap.
by John23832 4y ago
Not in the medical field, but space flight?
I think the point is that technology that has to constantly progress to stay relevant doesn’t stay cheap.
- BurningFrog 4y agoSpace-X has lowered costs by almost an order of magnitude, if I remember the numbers.
- etothepii 4y agoI don't think this is true. It's something Musk likes to say, but a source would be useful.
- midoridensha 4y agoI'm sure the launch costs (which can be worked into $/kg for payload) can be easily looked up, and show that SpaceX's reused rockets are much cheaper than what came before.
- someweirdperson 4y agoFalcon 9 is as cheap as Proton M according to something google found somewhere.
- etothepii 4y agoDo you have a source? We haven't seen a reduction in space insurance premiums of any particularly large magnitude which I would expect if the costs of launching satellites into space had been substantially reduced.
- John23832 4y agoSpaceX is a small fraction of total lifts though.
- XenophileJKO 4y agoSomething like 20-25% of all launchs globally doesn't seem like a small fraction.
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