Jeff Findley wrote on Wed, 12 Sep 2018
19:41:35 -0400:

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.


ULA is copying the Russians. The Boeing capsule 'crashes' like the
Russian capsules and Vulcan engine recovery is just what the Russians
do.


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