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Possibly the most expensive thing in the world with a publicly listed price ($97M) and sales contact (sales@spacex.com)? https://www.spacex.com/media/Capabilities&Services.pdf Just find that amusingly 'accessible'.
I'm kind of surprised a random SpaceX launch is #1 on HN, when on the same day, China just completed their modular space station: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422779
Space Stations have been done before. Most of what SpaceX is doing has not.
The view from below of the boosters after entry burn where you can clearly see they're not just falling straight down but actually achieving some horizontal velocity across the ground was really cool. I've always known that they had some cross-range capability, but this was a really excellent visualization of it!
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Good. Call China what it is.
A country with a impressive history of not declaring war on another state and who has drawn the ire of USA simply because they see it as credible economic competition?
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$1,000,000 per lb for R&D is steep, but at this stage in the game makes sense. I wonder what the unit price for a break-even 1lb saving would be. Is it worth spending $20,000 to shave off a pound with expensive materials?
That doesn't make sense. So if I buy a top spec model and make it 400lbs lighter I can double the price?
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> defined to begin at 100 km altitude I guess this is probably on Earth, which makes me wonder how far up from Earth's moon do you have to go to be "in space"?
It's also defined for Mars (80 km) and Venus (250 km), with the same definition of where winged flight is possible based on atmospheric density and local gravity. For an airless body, there's no real meaning to the definition, the surface is pretty much equivalent to space.
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It's indeed kinda refreshing to see a company actually put such a high pricetag out there... and all the more frustrating that so many companies demand contact info for a "quote" when I don't need to do that to launch something into outer fucking space .
Honestly, I think this would absolutely justify the Contact For Quote. What's your payload? What size is it? Will it be a dedicated flight, or can we ride share with other customers? So many questions just to do something silly like "launch something into outer fucking space". Also, nitpick, but is geosync orbit actually outer space?
Absolutely, which is exactly why it's so ridiculous that so many sales teams demand implied consent to receive their spam solely to get some kind of number for something far, far less.
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There's plenty of listed real estate that goes into the tens to hundreds of millions (and billions) with a contact and pricing. here's one right now: https://www.commercialcafe.com/commercial-property/us/ny/new... Listed price, and even a phone number to call. Go ahead, make an offer ;)
Only a sucker would buy this property. It'll be underwater within a decade or two...
https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/11/01/new-york-times-clima...
You climate change terrorists crack me up.
Possibly the most expensive thing in the world with a publicly listed price ($97M) and sales contact (sales@spacex.com)? https://www.spacex.com/media/Capabilities&Services.pdf Just find that amusingly 'accessible'.
Did the center booster land? What timecode was that at?
i believe the orbit and mass requirement meant there was no fuel left for landing the center stage. I think the configuration where they can't re-use the booster is called "full thrust".