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That's the super-heavy, which they have proposed as a competitor to a shuttle-derived (super-expensive) super-heavy. The Falcon Heavy can throw ~ 53 t into a l
by vela 15y ago
That's the super-heavy, which they have proposed as a competitor to a shuttle-derived (super-expensive) super-heavy.
The Falcon Heavy can throw ~ 53 t into a low-Earth orbit, and its list price is 80–125 M$ (http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php).
- maaku 15y ago...which are exactly the numbers I used. 3 x (53,000kg/80-125M$) = 159,000kg/240-375M$.
- vela 15y agoOops, sorry, I read too quickly and thought you meant 140 t to LEO per launch, and three launches for the full mission. (I also had NASA's DRM 5 in my head, which requires three deliveries of roughly that size per mission, rather than Mars Direct which requires two.)