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by throwawaylinux
1589 days ago
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> The article there cites per-kg costs at $10,000 on the space shuttle vs $27,000 on SpaceX. With the Dragon it came down to about $9,000 per kg, which is again about 10% below the price NASA was paying for the shuttle. > Their own numbers say that in the fullness of time they may be 10% cheaper. So far, not so. How do you reconcile these two statements? Are the costs now 10% cheaper per kg or not? Also from the link 2 > Margasahayam points out that, while the space shuttles were more expensive — a whopping $500 million per launch (or possibly $1.5 billion, according to one analysis we've seen) — each mission carried about 50,000 lbs. (plus seven astronauts!). That means each pound of cargo used to cost about $10,000 to ship on a shuttle. Some estimates are even higher than that, close to $2 billion, inflation adjusted https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/03/first-spacex-astronaut-launc... So the low estimate is not really fair, SpaceX has to pay off their R&D costs as well. |
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