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Re:SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online start... by AndrewBissell on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:09PM (#22260341)
They're not amortizing the costs of the rockets over the launches? I thought that was the whole point of making them reusable in the first place.
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Re:SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online start... by wolf550e on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:11PM (#22260356)
The first launch of a Falcon9 pays for the rocket in full (manufacturing costs, not development costs).
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Re:SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online start... by OJFord on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:04PM (#22260901)
If you buy a laptop to build software on, you can pay for the laptop with what you earn in a year, but that doesn't stop you amortising the cost over three. (It just increases your year one profit at the expense of years two and three, making the books more consistent.)
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