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Space launch market competition is the manifestation of market forces in the launch service provider business. [1] In particular it is the trend of competitive dynamics among payload transport capabilities at diverse prices having a greater influence on launch purchasing than the traditional political considerations of country of manufacture or the national entity using, regulating or ...
95,000 kg (209,000 lb) [47] ... the Space Review estimated the cost per launch at $5 billion, depending on the rate of launches. ... the per-launch production and ...
An aspirational price for this fully reusable launch vehicle is $10 per kilogram ($4.5/lb), significantly cheaper than most proposed space elevators. [5] New Glenn is also currently in development, a partially reusable rocket that promises to reduce price. However, an exact cost per launch has not been specified. [6]
And Rocket Lab has to charge more than $26,000 per kilogram of cargo it launches to Low Earth Orbit, versus SpaceX charging just $4,000 per kilogram on a fully loaded Falcon 9.
Present-day launch costs are very high – $2,500 to $25,000 per kilogram from Earth to low Earth orbit (LEO). As a result, launch costs are a large percentage of the cost of all space endeavors. If launch can be made cheaper, the total cost of space missions will be reduced.
By 2015, Falcon 9 was competing with ULA for lucrative U.S. national security missions, and when Falcon 9 version became reusable, lowering its cost per launch, SpaceX quickly stole ULA's role as ...
This equates to a price of US$2,350 per kg to LEO and US$5,620 per kg to GTO. In 2022, the published price for a reusable launch was $97 million. [98] 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]
For New Glenn, the project has cost in excess of $2.5 billion so far and each launch runs around $68 million. Putting one of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rockets into space takes some $90 million per launch.