Re:SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform spa...
by tigershark on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:22AM
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The target cost for starship is $2M per launch for a much bigger payload.
If they achieve that (but even if they arrive to several multiple of that) Falcon 9 is dead. It’s as simple as that.
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Re:SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform spa...
by webmaven on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:52PM
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> The target cost for starship is $2M per launch for a much bigger payload. If they achieve that (but even if they arrive to several multiple of that) Falcon 9 is dead. It’s as simple as that.
I wonder if that is entirely true.
There may still be a market for smaller bespoke launches that SpaceX won't want to cede to competitors (though this depends on the cadence of Starship launches, the latency of getting a payload included, and so on), and SpaceX may benefit from keeping F9 around as a platform that allows further iteration on the engines (though this depends on estimates of the increased risk for Starship launches that have a mix of engine versions).