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Re:SpaceX Revenue Doubled to $4.6B in 2022 Versus 2021 by Fordec on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:31PM (#37167557)
In other news it cost me $1500 to do a year of grocery shopping trips while it cost $1500 for one transatlantic return trip holiday.

Apples to oranges comparison. 400km to low earth orbit is not compatible to a 384400km trip to another gravity well.

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Re:SpaceX Revenue Doubled to $4.6B in 2022 Versus 2021 by avhon1 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:54PM (#37169338)
Distance is almost completely irrelevant for comparing launch vehicles.

Also, Falcon 9 has delivered multiple payloads to lunar orbit. Examples are ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1, SpaceIL's Beresheet, and South Korea's Danuri. In interplanetary space, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test was launched on a Falcon 9.

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Re:SpaceX Revenue Doubled to $4.6B in 2022 Versus 2021 by Fordec on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:52AM (#37176495)
Beresheet: 1,300 lbs

Danuri: 1,495 lbs

Hakuto-R: 2,200 lbs

DART: 1,340 lbs

Artemis 2: 112,000 lbs

Even by your examples there remains a 10,000% to 5,000% fold scale difference.

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Re:SpaceX Revenue Doubled to $4.6B in 2022 Versus 2021 by bryanlarsen on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:25PM (#37170102)
It takes 9400 km/s of delta-v to get to LEO, but only 3260 km/s of delta-v to get from LEO to Lunar Intercept Orbit.
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