#Starship #LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2
* Starship Update February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share
Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ per kg
#Ariane doesn't look good
Why isn't the #ISS (partially) recycled (by #SpaceRobot) and parts
or raw material used for the #LunarGateway (maybe for #RadiationProtection instead of #luggage
)? The #BBC article doesn't cover this https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/why-is-the-iss-being-retired-and-what-will-happen-to-it
The #LaunchCost were very high to bring this material to #orbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
#DW 07/27/2022 "whoever it is and no matter what they do in the future, everyone in the industry knows how hard it is to transport heavy #materials into #space. It's likely that at least some of these companies are hoping to #salvage parts of the #ISS" https://www.dw.com/en/therell-be-many-more-space-stations-in-future/a-62615228