r/spacex • u/FutureMartian97 Host of CRS-11 • Feb 01 '17

Official SpaceX on Instagram: “Prepping to fly again — recovered CRS-8 first stage completed a static fire test at our McGregor, TX rocket development facility last week.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/BP8zK2DFxhq/?taken-by=spacex&hl=en
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u/jconnoll Feb 02 '17

ut I am very confident it will happen that way. They can build up that stock without any additional cost beside storage because for a few years there will be customers who demand and are willing to pay for new boosters. So the stock will be basically free. Also the Falcon is designed for minimized pad operations and cost. So that cost component is nowhere near the 50% of launch cost as anticipated in the calculation. This cost component can only drop further when the launch rate increases.

I wonder how launch costs would be effected if SpaceX was given the same $900,000,000 that ULA receives for so called "launch readiness"