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Re:SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online start... by Diederich on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:40PM (#22260651)
> It's just opex for each launch at this point.

Almost...the 2nd stage is one use only. I saw a post on Reddit that estimated that each 2nd stage costs SpaceX about $10M...which is peanuts.

Re:SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online start... by SEJeff on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:43PM (#22260697)
There was an internal SpaceX presentation video which was leaked to r/SpaceX that stated their launch cost to be $30 million per launch. The video was taken down later that day, but that's the currently best known number for how much a fully loaded reusable Falcon 9 launch costs.
Re:SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online start... by Diederich on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:31AM (#22266882)
Thanks for the reference, I missed that.

I know one way or another that SpaceX's internal launch costs are a lot lower than the others. Good stuff.