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by kibwen 3056 days ago
I'm curious how the realized design that's launching today compares to the Saturn V. This article from 2016 implies that the Saturn V has three times the payload capacity, but that the Falcon Heavy is twelve times cheaper to launch (adjusting for inflation), implying a fourfold advantage in cost efficiency: https://www.universetoday.com/129989/saturn-v-vs-falcon-heav...
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That's assuming you expect cost to scale linearly, which isn't obvious to me?