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There is no answer to this. If you hang the entire R&D plus materials cost for Starship on this one launch, it's a huge amount. If you consider this as R&D th
by brookst 4y ago
There is no answer to this.
If you hang the entire R&D plus materials cost for Starship on this one launch, it's a huge amount.
If you consider this as R&D that will be amortized over decades of launches, not that much.
It's the same math that gets you the military buying $5000 hammers: it all depends how you allocate fixed costs across units.