Rocket Lab targets $50 million launch price for Neutron rocket to challenge SpaceX’s Falcon 9
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SpaceInMyBrain t1_jdn8gav wrote
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>The purchase price of a Falcon9 launch did not decrease significantly after they achieved reusability, they just increased their profit margins.
It's probably more accurate to say the profit is reinvested into Starlink launches and all the other Starlink costs. And of course into Starship. By the time Neutron is ready Starlink will be creating its own profits and SpaceX could drop the F9 price to below $50M. Of course if Starship works then F9 won't be flying at all by then, except for Dragon and any NSSL-2 launches the DoD doesn't want to switch over to Starship yet.
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