[ben-schaaf]

I don't see how that makes any sense. Starship is 100t dry; simply the fuel costs of a launch will necessarily be higher than disposable alternatives.

[perihelions]

Fuel is cheap: it's $900,000 per Starship launch, according to Musk [0]. No disposable rocket comes within even a factor-of-10 of that.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/06/elon-musk-says-spacexs-sta...

[ben-schaaf]

I was perhaps exaggerating a little with the fuel cost comparison, but we've had rockets like Astra R3 and SS-520 fly for under $5M per launch. Rocket Lab's Electron is ~$7.5M. That's all within a factor of 10.

[NooneAtAll3]

fuel is cheap

most expensive part are the engines