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Not sure where you are getting the $40M. That's much less than the sticker price, and probably much more than the actual marginal cost of a launch.
by sebzim4500 2y ago
Not sure where you are getting the $40M. That's much less than the sticker price, and probably much more than the actual marginal cost of a launch.
- bell-cot 2y agoYou are correct (as far as I know), but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem No point to looking up the current exact price, nor payload, when removing orbital junk is multi-million-dollar ante game, and state-of-the-art is "a few engineering prototypes exist". The bottom line (that we're many orders of magnitude away from economically recovering small space junk as raw material) would be true whether the cost of launch was $20/g or $0.20/g.