| The private sector has actually managed to reduce costs. RefutationNEG1 #367519 John Strickland explains how SpaceX can drive launch costs to less than one tenth that of competing rocket systems. the price for a Falcon Heavy launch ($83 million) and that the payload it will be able to carry to LEO is 117,000 pounds. That works out to $709 per pound, less than the $1000 per pound BTE goal for the Heavy Lifter to be used for launching the Enterprise components into space. |
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