Musk estimates future cost of 1 kg of cargo delivery to orbit at under $100
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According to the US entrepreneur, this can be achieved thanks to the full reusability of the Starship space system
NEW YORK, November 7. /TASS/. US entrepreneur Elon Musk expects that in the future delivering 1 kg of cargo to orbit will cost less than $100.
"I think we get to under $100 a kilogram to orbit," he said in an interview with entrepreneur Ron Baron, who quoted the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration as saying that it stood at $18,500 in 2010, and that after the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, this figure decreased.
Musk explained that the Falcon 9 launch vehicle has "around 80% usability. The booster comes back and lands. We do not refly the upper stage and the cost of the upper stage is roughly the cost of a medium-sized jet. So that means the minimum cost per flight for Falcon 9 is a medium-sized jet.
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