On 30/03/2011 3:31 PM, David Spain wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
On 30/03/2011 9:28 AM, Brian Thorn wrote:

They won't have to. It will be dead and gone (if it isn't already), a
footnote in SpaceX history.

Brian

I disagree - they'res a market for small LV's that is being met with
ex-ICBM's at the moment. I include Minitaur in this, seeing it's based
on Minuteman.

The SpaceX website says the Falcon 1e replaces the Falcon 1 and prices it
out to 1010kg to LEO for $10.9M. That works out to $10,792 per kg to LEO
or ~$4900 per lb to LEO for a fully loaded payload.

How's that compare to ex-ICBM pricing? Seems damn competitive to me.


Not many ICBM's being built - limited launch capacity; limited payload
size. The fairing for the Falcon 1 is quite large by comparison.