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> I'd love to know how much they're spending to refurbish each of these – is it 80% of build cost or 20%? "In August 2020, Elon Musk tweeted that refurbishment
by schiffern 3y ago
> I'd love to know how much they're spending to refurbish each of these – is it 80% of build cost or 20%?
"In August 2020, Elon Musk tweeted that refurbishment and reuse of a booster is done for less than 10% the price of a new booster while the payload reduction is below 40%. According to his tweet, SpaceX breaks even with a second flight per booster and saves money from the third flight on.[81] At that time, Falcon 9 Block 5 had made 35 flights with 11 boosters."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_development_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_...
- danpalmer 3y agoOh awesome, this does shed some light on it all. Thanks!
- Already__Taken 3y ago35-(11x2) * 70mil being roughly a billion in profit? not bad for something everyone said can't be done.