Re: SpaceX Thought experiment -a Saturn V class vehicle within 10 years?
- From: simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg)
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:30:16 GMT
On 8 Jun 2005 22:02:57 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Tom Cuddihy"
<tom.cuddihy@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:
>> But even when and if SpaceX gets Falcon V flying,
>> Musk will have spent maybe $100 million on the
>> effort. It would take hundreds of millions, maybe
>> even billions, of dollars more to develop a
>> Saturn V class rocket. (Kistler is looking for
>> $500 million that it needs to complete its K-1).
>>
>> Musk doesn't have that kind of money. He is only a
>> multi-hundred millionaire. (Yes, he sold PayPal for
>
>
>Yes, but if Falcon V gets off the pad in a reasonable time frame (the
>next 3 years), Musk will, if he's sane, take the company public or go
>for a round of additional private financing before going for a new
>rocket.
He won't raise any private money for a Saturn V class rocket any time
soon. There's insufficient market for it.
.
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