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by credit_guy
21 days ago
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Spirits are not capital intensive. Building a rocket is very capital intensive. You'd like to be able to reuse it. But if one single mission takes 30 years, then you can reuse this rocket once, at most twice. Let's say you reuse it twice, you amortize the capital cost over a period of 90 years. Now, let's say someone builds the exact same rockets, but they do missions between the asteroid belt and Mars. Each trip takes about 2 years. Everything you can source on Titan, you can find an asteroid to source it from. By the time you reuse a Titan-bound rocket once, you reuse an asteroid-bound rocket many times. |
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