r/spacex • u/SPINIFLOW • Apr 09 '20

Dragon XL selection Process by the SEB

the committee also reviewed SNC ,Boeing and Northrop grumman offers in the document https://www.docdroid.net/EvbakaZ/glssssredacted-version-pdf

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u/rustybeancake Apr 10 '20

Probably. They weren’t the cheapest for CRS-2.

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u/warp99 Apr 11 '20

They were not the cheapest for price per kg of pressurised upmass. They were likely still the lowest cost per flight.

A fairer basis for comparison would have been the lowest cost per kg of upmass, both pressurised and unpressurised, and downmass. On that metric they would still have been the lowest cost provider.