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Fuel is cheap: it's $900,000 per Starship launch, according to Musk [0]. No disposable rocket comes within even a factor-of-10 of that. [0] https://techcrunch.
by perihelions 2y ago
Fuel is cheap: it's $900,000 per Starship launch, according to Musk [0]. No disposable rocket comes within even a factor-of-10 of that.
[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/06/elon-musk-says-spacexs-starship-could-fly-for-as-little-as-2-million-per-launch/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/06/elon-musk-says-spacexs-sta...
- ben-schaaf 2y agoI was perhaps exaggerating a little with the fuel cost comparison, but we've had rockets like Astra R3 and SS-520 fly for under $5M per launch. Rocket Lab's Electron is ~$7.5M. That's all within a factor of 10.