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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by maccam94 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:00AM (#22494017)
Basically to drive down the cost of payload mass as much as possible. First you have to build a lot of rocket to get anything up into space. If it only launches 1kg of payload, that's going to be a very expensive kilogram. As you continue to scale the rocket up, assuming you can design for a decent payload ratio, the amount of cargo capacity increases and the cost per kilogram drops.

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