Re: Could Falcon 9 compete with the Stick?

On 8 Sep 2005 17:23:06 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
<edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>I don't believe the numbers. The going rate these
>days for U.S. launchers is about $10-13K per kg to
>LEO. Mr. Musk claims he has a business case for
>$3K per kg. I could imagine that it might be
>possible for a newbie to march into the space
>business with a fresh concept and undercut the
>old-line competition, but never by this much. It
>just doesn't seem believable to me.

Why not?
.

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