Marvin the Martian wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:43:45 +0000, Derek Lyons wrote:

Marvin the Martian wrote:

It avoids having to develop a true heavy lift capability. You can make
small man rated rockets to lift people; and larger, higher g non-man
rated rockets for freight.

In some drug addled world where rocket costs scale with size and non man
rated boosters sufficiently reliable to trust with irreplacable billion
dollar cargoes are noticeably cheaper per lb of cargo delivered than man
rated rockets, sure.

But we don't live in that world.

D.

If you have a small payload, a tiny Russian Shtil Rocket can get you to
LEO for just $465/kg. Larger rockets DO cost more, like the Zenit 3SL
costs 5.3 k$/kg to LEO.

Compare apples to apples jackass.

(Pity you decided to ridicule facts you don't understand.)

On the contrary - I do understand the facts. The difference between
you and me is that I am sober.

D.
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