jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoSecond SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next?www.nationalgeographic.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down123
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minus-squareDr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·9 months agoRussia has drastically lower launch costs than SpaceX. Justify it now.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoMind giving your source? I found 2.5k/kg for falcon 9 vs 5k/kg for soyuz. The shtil is as far as I can tell military surplus and is now retired, so it’s costs aren’t really reflective of long term usage. https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/04/20/t-minus-6-seconds-starship-and-humanitys-next-major-step-into-space/ https://marspedia.org/Financial_effort_estimation
Russia has drastically lower launch costs than SpaceX. Justify it now.
Mind giving your source? I found 2.5k/kg for falcon 9 vs 5k/kg for soyuz. The shtil is as far as I can tell military surplus and is now retired, so it’s costs aren’t really reflective of long term usage.
https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/04/20/t-minus-6-seconds-starship-and-humanitys-next-major-step-into-space/
https://marspedia.org/Financial_effort_estimation