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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by dalbasal on Saturday April 14, 2018 @03:30AM (#16836334)
Good point. I hadn't even thought of that. Along with long horizons generally, this probably explains a lot about militaries' "price inflexibility." Launching is a smaller component of more expensive whole.
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Re:SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round by azernik on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:14PM (#16859671)
Same with the big NASA science payloads - if you're spending $8-9B on JWST, paying a $100M premium for a launch vehicle you're slightly more confident in is totally worth it.
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