By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 23:23:07 | Updated at 2025-01-13 05:24:36
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SpaceX Reusable Rocket Costs Versus Airplanes
Next Big Future ^ | February 11, 2022 | Brian Wang
Posted on 01/07/2025 2:44:04 PM PST by mowowie
In the most recent SpaceX Starship presentation, Elon Musk stated that the SpaceX Starship can become lower cost than airplanes for long haul cargo delivery. I have some detailed calculations. Starship will double the payload capacity. Full fueling costs are about the same for the 1200 tons of fuel for Starship versus 50,000 gallons of jet fuel for a long-range cargo plane for each flight. However, twice payload means half the cost. Non-fuel costs for the vehicles and the frequency of flights are hugely in Starship favor. Starship should have twice the payload.
Starship starts off at half of the loaded cost per flight and four times cheaper per ton of payload and then will proceed to be ten to fifteen times cheaper. Plus they will have some initial new no competition markets for ultra-fast delivery.
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I found this article very interesting.
It's seems that Starship may revolutionize travel on this planet for a fraction of the time and cost of typical air travel.
1 posted on 01/07/2025 2:44:04 PM PST by mowowie
To: mowowie
Flight 7 is scheduled for this Friday at 5pm est
2 posted on 01/07/2025 2:45:50 PM PST by mowowie
To: mowowie
Once you have a rocket in space, transportation is cheap.
3 posted on 01/07/2025 2:49:06 PM PST by Jonty30 (Liberals are a fulfillment of II Tim3:5. We are instructed to have nothing to do with those people. )
To: mowowie
“ May a million libel suits bloom in the spring....”
I can see SpaceX Rockets taking off from my house, at least the path they’re taking. It is part of the joy of living in red state Florida.
4 posted on 01/07/2025 2:53:33 PM PST by Freee-dame ( )
To: mowowie
Cool concept...but let’s not get out over our skis.
The Starship program is a looong way from having multiple facilities around the globe for launch, catch, assembly, refueling, maintenance, inspection, security...not to mention cargo handling.
One will eventually crash and then general safety considerations will become paramount.
5 posted on 01/07/2025 2:59:10 PM PST by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
To: mowowie
To: All
I probably should have said the Falcom program rather than Starship but the same considertions apply.
One would have to move a tremendous amount of tonnage to justify the expense. The PRIVATE ENTERPRISE expense, not taxpayer expense.
7 posted on 01/07/2025 3:04:35 PM PST by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
To: All
Is there thoughts of doing this w/ cargo, not passengers? That way no one dies.
8 posted on 01/07/2025 3:12:00 PM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
To: mowowie
Cool...I want my Amazon deliveries coming down in my front yard via rocket! To heck with those noisy drones.
9 posted on 01/07/2025 3:22:57 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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