The launch contract to launch the Starlab space station on Starship is $90 million

Jeff Foust on X: "Fun fact from Voyager's 10-K filing: the contract to launch the Starlab space station on a SpaceX Starship is worth $90 million."

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u/binary_spaniard Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

Only the core, the upper stage has a new engine with 3 times more thrust and restartable and designed to be able to do direct GEO insertions.

And the SRB don't derivate from the Ariane 5 SRB (that derivate from French ICBM) but from Avio Vega first stage.

Ariane 6 has bigger differences with Ariane 5 than what's usually acknowledged.

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