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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. Apr 9, 2024 · Now the Space Shuttle's cost varied due to startup costs and because it was temporarily taken out of service after the Challenger and Columbia tragedies, but at the best of times it achieved a per-kg cost as low as \$58,920 per-kg (2022 USD). Falcon 9 plus Dragon's lowest cost so far has been ~\$70,000 2022 USD). So, when you do more of an ...

  4. Jun 7, 2024 · If we assume that each Falcon 9 actually costs SpaceX “as little” as $50 million, this would imply that SpaceX will have spent $10 billion and upwards on Starlink launch alone (plus a probable ...

  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. 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.

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