SpaceX Did Something that NASA Couldn't Do for Decades With 200 Times Lower Cost than SLS...
"SpaceX Did Something that NASA Couldn't Do for Decades With 200 Times Lower Cost than SLS...
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SpaceX Did Something that NASA Couldn't Do for Decades With 200 Times Lower Cost than SLS...
Here's what SpaceX could do in two decades by building its rockets 20 times cheaper than NASA's.
And what if SpaceX could expand that gap to 200 times in the future?
Find out everything in today’s Techmap episode.
A big step forward for SpaceX on October 13 when its launch tower's chopsticks, namely Mechazilla successfully caught a descending rocket booster.
This success inspires SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk to set a more ambitious goal to achieve full stack reusability in 2025.
Thanks to that, the company can accelerate toward the goal of having the first crewed flight of the Starship HLS lander to the Moon in 2026, launching five uncrewed Starships to Mars in the same year, then, possibly launching crewed missions to that planet in 2030.
SpaceX Did Something that NASA Couldn't Do for Decades With 200 Times Lower Cost than SLS...
It's not by chance that the sight of catching Super Heavy gives us goosebumps. This is not just about an unprecedented engineering feat. More importantly, it gives us real hope for a future where no rocket parts end up in the ocean, where space travel is no longer the monopoly of a small group of people in the World, and where our tax dollars are no longer wasted on opaque government projects. There will be a lot of interesting things waiting for us.
And of course, we should hope so. Keep in mind that SpaceX's fully reusable Starship is indeed the final phase of its reusable launch system development program, building on the successes of its partially reusable Falcon rocket line. Although currently, the program is only coming to the phase of partial reusability, its positive impact is very significant.
Okay, let's look at the huge gap between SpaceX's costs versus NASA's thanks to reusability, the Holy Grail of rocketry.
SpaceX Did Something that NASA Couldn't Do for Decades With 200 Times Lower Cost than SLS...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches have been advertised at around $62 million per launch, while larger rockets like the Falcon Heavy can cost upwards of $90 million per launch. On the higher end, NASA's expendable Space Launch System (SLS) is estimated to cost over $2 billion per launch.
Wow, that means that they could theoretically conduct about 20 Falcon Heavy launches for the price of one SLS launch. It's so amazing, right?
According to statistics, when Elon enters the industry, launching spacecraft today is 10 times cheaper than it was a decade ago.
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