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September 13th 18, 12:41 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Jeff Findley[_6_]
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Falcon 9 Block 5 update
In article ,
says...
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/0...p-in-half.html
Some positive news.
Though I suspect launch PRICES won't drop much and rather profit margins
will increase for SpaceX.
True. But they're still by far the cheapest launch provider, so there
is no incentive to lower prices any further. When the competition
starts lowering their prices (which won't happen anytime soon), then
SpaceX will lower theirs.
Market driven pricing.
But it does mean it'll be harder for ULA and others to compete unless they
can really cut costs.
Yep. And so far ULA has only paid lip service to reuse (their so called
"smart reuse" is dumb since it only recovers the engines of the first
stage. By the time this is perfected, SpaceX might very well be flying
BFR/BFS which will be fully reusable.
Jeff
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