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Re:Rocket Lab's engine has electric turbos and 3D-printed pr... by agildehaus on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:59PM (#9401229)
Won't that $61M figure get slashed by a tremendous amount once they achieve re-usability?
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Re:Rocket Lab's engine has electric turbos and 3D-printed pr... by binoyxj on Sunday April 19, 2015 @04:41AM (#9402434)
The cost is expected to go down from $56M to just 5-$7M http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-04-15/how-huch-doe...
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Re:Rocket Lab's engine has electric turbos and 3D-printed pr... by mbertschler on Saturday April 18, 2015 @08:13PM (#9401565)
SpaceX will achieve reusability in multiple steps, first recovering the first stage, then the second stage and so on. The cost will go down, but probably not very soon and not so fast.
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