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October 30th 03, 01:58 PM
Bernardz
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Cheap Realistic Space Flight
In article ,
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What's the cheapest cost to orbit a chemical rocket is likely to
yield in the next fifty years? Will we see $100/pound to orbit?
How about $10/pound? And what underlying technology will
this rocket use?
NASA was talking a few years ago of getting it to $1000/pound in the
future. No way will they achieve it soon.
But you need to specify more details.
Say it costs you $X to develop the rockets
Say you build a launch pad for $Y
Say each rocket costs $Z
Say each rocket carries P pounds
and use it to fire N rockets
Then your cost per rocket per pound = (x+y+z) * P / N
N at present is probably the most disappointing figure.
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