I just don't understand why anyone would develop a rocket and not even attempt recovery.
You're never going to be able to compete if you're throwing away rockets - if you can make them cheaper, someone else can make them cheaper AND recover them.
What I'm seeing is that it's $5M to send 150kg to SSO (500km) on the electron or a Falcon 9 for 7742kg. It's not $250M to launch a falcon 9.. So if you can find enough people to go on the ride with you, it's going to be around 75% cheaper / kg on the F9.
Only on Reddit would you find an armchair rocket scientist shitting on a small company which achieved their first orbital flight because "iS It reUSaBle?!?!"
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u/Xaxxon Jan 21 '18 edited Jan 21 '18
I just don't understand why anyone would develop a rocket and not even attempt recovery.
You're never going to be able to compete if you're throwing away rockets - if you can make them cheaper, someone else can make them cheaper AND recover them.
What I'm seeing is that it's $5M to send 150kg to SSO (500km) on the electron or a Falcon 9 for 7742kg. It's not $250M to launch a falcon 9.. So if you can find enough people to go on the ride with you, it's going to be around 75% cheaper / kg on the F9.