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> Cost to launch on falcon per kg: $2-3k. Wait, that's price. SpaceX is profitable. It's roughly 100x cheaper. A fully loaded falcon costs less than $500k to l
by ac29 1y ago
> Cost to launch on falcon per kg: $2-3k. Wait, that's price. SpaceX is profitable. It's roughly 100x cheaper.
A fully loaded falcon costs less than $500k to launch?
- stavros 1y agoA fully loaded falcon can only carry 250kg?
- amluto 1y agoCheck your math. The capacity to LEO is around 17500 kg.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoIf the cost is 100 times cheaper than 2-3k per kilo that’s $20-30 per kilo, or 500k. Maths checks out, whether the cost per launch is really that low is another thing.
- mkl 1y agoYou have misunderstood; SpaceX obviously doesn't have a profit margin of 99%. The 100x comparison was with the space shuttle.
- mynameisvlad 1y agoThen it really shouldn't have been written immediately after "Wait, that's price. SpaceX is profitable." The two statements have literally nothing to do with one another and it's easy to see why one would assume that the final sentence is talking about the sentence immediately before it.
- hdgvhicv 1y agoThe implication to me and others was “it’s roughly 100x cheaper than the (3k/kg) price” And that wouldn’t be a profit margin of 99%, it would be a profit margin around 10000%
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- cma 1y ago17500 * $30 = around $500,000 $350,000 at the lower end where he said $20. I don't think the expendable upper stage on its own is $350,000-$500,000. I think the fairing is probably more than that.
- amluto 1y agoTry again? The comment you’re replying to says “$2-3k” per kg. That’s $2000-$3000 per kg. If you multiply your numbers by 100, you get something comparable to the prices on SpaceX’s website.
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