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0 pointsAjedi326y ago0 comments

That's NASA's goal. SpaceX has historically been much more ambitious than NASA: https://www.inverse.com/article/60712-spacex-starship-elon-m...

(($2M/launch) / (100 Mg / launch) = $20/kg

Now obviously those are aspirational numbers; Starship is too early in its development cycle for anyone to be making truly accurate cost projections. Furthermore the cost per launch to SpaceX isn't necessarily the same as what they'll actually be charging their customers. But even if Elon's guess is off by an order of magnitude, it'll still be way cheaper than "hundreds of dollars per pound", and it'll happen much sooner than "25 years".

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Ajedi32OP6y ago

Also, that NASA article is from 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101013052045/https://www.nasa....

I have to imagine that with the advent of reusable launch vehicles, even NASA has to be a bit more optimistic about future launch costs now than they were 9 years ago.

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0 pointsAjedi326y ago0 comments

That's NASA's goal. SpaceX has historically been much more ambitious than NASA: https://www.inverse.com/article/60712-spacex-starship-elon-m...

(($2M/launch) / (100 Mg / launch) = $20/kg

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Ajedi32OP6y ago

Also, that NASA article is from 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101013052045/https://www.nasa....

I have to imagine that with the advent of reusable launch vehicles, even NASA has to be a bit more optimistic about future launch costs now than they were 9 years ago.

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