Again, not an expert, but volume isn’t the issue, mass is. Every gram costs fuel and infrastructure to launch. That was the benefit of SpaceX’s Falcon platform, and it’s reusable launch stages. But even with that, still beyond most non-government scale budgets to consider.
So, not an expert by any stretch, but my understanding is that A) that’s the idea behind SLS that the Artemis launch was part of and B) even with that, it’s still silly expensive to get material to orbit.
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Again, not an expert, but volume isn’t the issue, mass is. Every gram costs fuel and infrastructure to launch. That was the benefit of SpaceX’s Falcon platform, and it’s reusable launch stages. But even with that, still beyond most non-government scale budgets to consider.