Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SunkenCiv

This makes no sense. Why would I offload a satellite payload from a customer who would pay me $100,000,000 in exchange for saving a $20,000,000 booster?


8 posted on 12/28/2015 5:00:35 AM PST by robert14 (cng)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: robert14

POC ... proof of concept .... cool your jets, Bobby


9 posted on 12/28/2015 5:19:21 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

To: robert14

The likely answer is time between launches. It is likely, though I don’t have the data, that it takes far less time to refurbish and relaunch using the recovered booster then the amount of time it would take to fabricate a new one from scratch.

As such with limited capital you can earn more over a shorter period of time through added launches due to the shorter turn around time between launches. So the second payload still gets launched, just at a different time. Now you’ve made both of the 100M launches and also saved 40M in booster cost. In addition, the two payloads didn’t need to make any compromises between payloads for location requests, altitudes, weight tradeoffs, etc.


13 posted on 12/28/2015 8:18:05 AM PST by reed13k (w)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson