| Total nonsense. Go look at any analysis of launch prices over the last 20 years, they have gone down. SpaceX came in with a very aggressive price and they have lowered it a bit since. However since they have no competition they have increased their own margin rather then lower the price further. That has made them a highly valuable company capable of investing in next generation. > And reusability has its own problems, like lowering the amount of payload by 25% (you need to save fuel for re-entry). That argument is equally dumb for all other types of transportation as it is for rockets. > You can maybe get 10-20% savings if you ever get it working (see previous failed attempts...). Complete nonsense. Hardware on a large rockets is above 80% of the cost and large fixed cost can be improved also by higher flight rates that re-usability make possible. Anybody that has studied that space seriously understand that massively lower cost are possible with full rapid re-usability. |