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  1. May 2, 2016 · SpaceX’s updated price chart shows the significant performance difference between the partially reusable and fully expendable versions of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust and Falcon Heavy rockets. The ...

  2. Jun 13, 2022 · SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s cost of US$1,400 per kg is 700 times cheaper than Vanguard — the first family of NASA’s rockets — 44 times cheaper than the retired Space Shuttle programme and 4 ...

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Falcon_HeavyFalcon Heavy - Wikipedia

    In 2022 NASA contracted with SpaceX to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy for approximately $255 million, including launch service and other mission related costs. [ 99 ] The nearest competing U.S. rocket was ULA's Delta IV Heavy with a LEO payload capacity of 28.4 t (63,000 lb) costs US$12,340 per kg to LEO and US$24,630 per kg to GTO. [ 100 ]

    • 3.7 m (12 ft)
    • 433.1 t (955,000 lb)
    • 22.2 t (49,000 lb)
    • 42.6 m (140 ft)
  4. Nov 9, 2020 · A recent Falcon Heavy launch contract SpaceX won from NASA, for example, was $117 million. In the first Phase 2 award, ULA is launching two missions almost for the price of one SpaceX mission.

  5. Feb 20, 2024 · In 2018, ahead of a Falcon 9 Block 5 launch, Musk broke down the costs again. The boost stage, he stated, costs around 60 percent of the total costs, with the upper stage 20 percent, the fairing ...

  6. Jan 27, 2022 · During the last 60 years, roughly 600 people have flown into space, and the vast majority of them have been government astronauts. For a suborbital trip on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and Blue Origin’s New Shepard, seats typically cost $250,000 to $500,000. Flights beyond that to actual orbit—a much higher altitude—are far more ...

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  8. Mar 1, 2019 · When the space shuttle was in operation, it could launch a payload of 27,500 kilograms for $1.5 billion, or $54,500 per kilogram. For a SpaceX Falcon 9, the rocket used to access the ISS, the cost ...

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