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fuggg I posted in wrong thred

>>30352362
>US government giving them huge overpriced contracts for some reason
Yeah, but it's identical to every single space flight ever. Space is fucking expensive. Elon is actually the other way around honestly. He -could've- gotten fat stacks of cash like every other guy, but he's lowering the prices and threatening their market share, globally. For comparison, check pic related, $3k per kg and it went down since 2017 when this paper was released. And apparently even that isn't enough and he's making Starship, project goal is reducing the flight cost to as close as possible to fuel only, it makes it ridiculously cheap. If it was about government gibs, he could've easily gotten almost 10x money than now, like everyone else in that list. He wouldn't lose US government if he went expensive, but he also wouldn't get so many commercial contracts globally.
t. spess autism
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-17-609.pdf

>>30352362
>US government giving them huge overpriced contracts for some reason
Yeal, but it's identical to every single space flight ever. Space is fucking expensive. Elon is actually the other way around honestly. He -could've- gotten fat stacks of cash like every other guy, but he's lowering the prices and threatening their market share, globally. For comparison, check pic related, $3k per kg and it went down since 2017 when this paper was released. And apparently even that isn't enough and he's making Starship, project goal is reducing the flight cost to as close as possible to fuel only, it makes it ridiculously cheap. If it was about government gibs, he could've easily gotten almost 10x money than now, like everyone else in that list. He wouldn't lose US government if he went expensive, but he also wouldn't get so many commercial contracts globally.
t. spess autism

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-17-609.pdf