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SpaceX pricing
SpaceX has revealed a bit more about pricing for Falcon Heavy. They've
also announced another barge for the east coast. When used with a Falcon Heavy, this will allow two booster barge recovery and expendable core stage flights. This will result in only a 10% performance "hit" compared to fully expendable mode, but a huge cost savings. These are the Falcon Heavy numbers I saw on Twitter last night: Fully Expendable $150 million Booster Recovery Only $95 million Booster and Core Recovery $90 million Also, Troy Bruno got a bit miffed on Twitter that Musk tweeted that Fully Expendable was $250 million cheaper than the "nearest competition". Troy tweeted back that Delta IV Heavy only costs about $350 million. So, if we do the math, it's only a bit more than 2x as expensive as Fully Expendable instead of Musk claiming it was a bit more than 3x as expensive as Fully Expendable. I'm not sure how that really helps ULA's message here, but I'm not paid the "big bucks" like Tory Bruno is. The fact is that Booster Recovery Only is getting close to 1/4 the cost of Delta IV Heavy with only a 10% performance hit. I think that is proof positive that reuse actually reduces costs to the customer. Thanks, Jeff -- All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone. These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends, employer, or any organization that I am a member of. |
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