How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
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How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
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#2Honest question, can I hire one of these companies to send a turd to space?
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#3That's fantastic. Makes me wonder what other efficiency gains we're missing out on due to there not being the right incentives.
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#4It just isn't plausible that Starship launch costs for LEO could be 1/28th the costs for Falcon Heavy. This sounds like more Musk optimism to me.
Re: How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
#5For the smallest possible missions, the price per kg is fairly constant in recent years - $50,000/kg. SpaceX does indeed offers the best price: $5000/kg, but only if you are buying in bulk.
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#6Honest question, can I hire one of these companies to send a turd to space?
I was going to ask a related question -- with prices as low as $50/kg, what's preventing people from launching a bunch of useless sh*t into LEO? Does someone need to approve? Or does that orbit decay so quickly that it's not much of an issue?
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#7Honest question, can I hire one of these companies to send a turd to space?
Dennis Tito went as a tourist in 2001 for $20 million. If you can get a turd generator to space for that price, I’d imagine it’s considerably cheaper to get the finished product up there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism
Re: How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
#8It just isn't plausible that Starship launch costs for LEO could be 1/28th the costs for Falcon Heavy. This sounds like more Musk optimism to me.
Falcon Heavy has a significantly smaller payload bay and the 1st stage will always be lost. If a starship can fly 10 times and requires much less refurb than a FH, it makes sense.
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#9Honest question, can I hire one of these companies to send a turd to space?
I was going to ask a related question -- with prices as low as $50/kg, what's preventing people from launching a bunch of useless sh*t into LEO? Does someone need to approve? Or does that orbit decay so quickly that it's not much of an issue?
They won’t be launching individual turds, instead it would be a turd cluster with thousands of turds which will decay in orbit at the same time, raining an ultra-hot turd rain which will hopefully evaporate prior to reaching sea-level, instead making clouds slightly turdier.
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#10The y-scale on that graph really makes it hard to understand the true drop in price.