On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:02:53 +1000, in a place far, far away,
(Stephen Souter) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:


$1000 x 2000lbs == $2,000,000 per launch. That sounds too good to be true!

Not to me, as long as you do enough launches.

So, each of those 30 missions, you fill up your orbital depot and sell to
the highest bidder.

Wouldn't you have to build the orbital depot first?

If nothing else, you'd need somewhere to house those assembling the lunar
mission's ship. As a benchmark, the ISS will be over 350 metric tons when
finished.

ISS is a lousy benchmark for an orbital propellant depot.

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