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Well, the Falcon Heavy has yet to launch, and SpaceX has yet to reuse a rocket. Someday, SpaceX may be 10x cheaper, but until then...

• jp555 12y ago
  Good point.
  • lafar6502 12y ago
    Well, it would be worth establishing 10 times cheaper than what. I mean, it would be very naive to believe that SpaceX will charge 10% of what customers pay elsewhere to get their stuff into space.
    • jp555 12y ago
      SpaceX's reusable rocket cost is divided by hundreds of rocket-launches rather than a single launch when a disposable rocket is used.
    • adventured 12y ago
      The simple counter to that is: volume. If my competition earns $1 per X, and I earn $0.10 per X, but I'm selling ten times as many of X, then I'm not particularly upset about my circumstances. It's the Walmart retail model. Yes it takes them $476 billion in sales to reach $16 billion in profit, but they still do it.
• maaku 12y ago
  The Falcon 9 is already 5x - 10x cheaper than the competition.
  • twelve40 12y ago
    Can you please explain where this came from. Soyuz-U 7 ton payload to LEO is about $50 mil. Falcon 9 with 13 ton payload to LEO Wikipedia lists as $61.2M cost per launch. http://www.astronautix.com/articles/costhing.htm http://www.astronautix.com/articles/costhing.htm
    • maaku 12y ago
      I was comparing with ULA, and should have clarified I meant Falcon 9h ($85 million). The domestic competition for that is Delta 4 Heavy ($435 million).