In article , Al Jackson wrote:
(ed kyle) wrote in message . com...
We'll know soon enough.


- Ed Kyle

Reading their website and other press on SpaceX ,
they say launch cost will be 6 million.
That would be interesting, and maybe can be done.
But the only mention I see for development cost is
100 million, that really seems low, even using off-the-shelf
stuff , I find this hard to believe.

Random thought - to what degree are development costs constrained by
launch cost, and how does it scale?

I mean, you'd rationally expect Pegasus to have lower development costs
than, say, Delta IV. But is there a relationship? Interesting thought.

(It no doubt depends on testing regimens - I'd hate to see the
development cost of one of the EELVs if they'd used a V2-scale
test-firing program) Might go and dig up some numbers here...

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-Andrew Gray