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Somebody on /r/spacex made the following spreadsheet to demonstrate the effect of savings due to the reusability of the first and potentially second stages: htt
by krasin 12y ago
Somebody on /r/spacex made the following spreadsheet to demonstrate the effect of savings due to the reusability of the first and potentially second stages: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhFJHvEz4SHQdDBvanoxSzhUbEhnd05OZENiTDBBR0E&usp=sharing#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhFJHvEz4SHQdDB...
- Gravityloss 12y agoThat's interesting, though it doesn't take into account all the non-rocket costs in the launch. Also the factory has to exist, probably the yearly cost does not scale linearly with the number of engines produced. That said, once you go there, if launch prices drop to one tenth, all kinds of other things can start to happen.