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Refurb is a million or so, a small fraction of the total cost of new. The new second stages is about ten mil, the fairing, often reused but not always is a few
by asadotzler 3y ago
Refurb is a million or so, a small fraction of the total cost of new. The new second stages is about ten mil, the fairing, often reused but not always is a few mil for each half. The ops and recovery are probably a million. Listen to the Musk Aviation Week interview for his public statements on all of that. Best case, he says, is about fifteen million for a reused launch and people paying attention think it was typically about $28 million at that time. See Chris Colouris (sp) comments off the record for that number. I suspect in the last several years, the gap between those has closed and it's probably around $20 million for a typical LEO RTLS launch that SpaceX charges about $67 million for. (Note, the full build cost of a new F9 is also a matter of speculation, and I think it's between $40 and $50 million today.)