Re:SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform spa...
by kashkhan on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:22PM
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full reusability is the holy grail. It could have been achieved at the time of X-33 with a little bit of clever engineering.
There is usually 1-2 order of magnitude cost difference between vehicle price and the gas in the tank.
Even if he could (he can't), what business sense would it make? Why would you cut the prices of launches to 1% of the current ones, if you could also cut them by just 10% and supposedly have an absolutely insane margin, because you'd still get all the business.