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📆 2013 With small teams and far lower overhead, was able to go from incorporation to first in six years. are projected to run 40 to 60 percent less 📉 than what’s being charged today hbr.org/2013/04/what-spacex-ca

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📆 August 24, 2023 Although 's 🇮🇳 government allocated the equivalent of $1.66 billion 💵 for the department of for the fiscal year ending in March, it spent around 25% less 📉. has a $25 billion 💰💰💰 budget for the current year. The annual increase 📈 in NASA's budget - $1.3 billion - was more than what spent in total 📊. reuters.com/world/india/chandr

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In 📆 2020, the 🇮🇳 Organization () estimated the mission would cost about $75 million 💵 .Overall, 's annual budget of $25.4 💰 billion dwarfs that of its Indian counterpart of about $1.6 billion cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chan

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In 📆 2020, the 🇮🇳 Organization () estimated the Chandrayaan-3 mission would cost about $75 million 💵 .Overall, 's annual budget of $25.4 💰 billion dwarfs that of its Indian counterpart of about $1.6 billion cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chan

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OUP Academic - Testing flexible polymer solar cells in near-space

📆 March 2023 Due to high and payload weight limits, a strong increase in the specific power of for use is highly desirable. Moreover, truly 🧻 solar cells will enable completely different deployment strategies. Novel solar cell technologies based on organic solar cells or perovskite solar cells offer these advantages of being lightweight, potentially cheap 💶 and fully flexible academic.oup.com/nsr/article/1

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📆 March 2023 Due to high and payload weight limits, a strong increase in the specific power of for use is highly desirable. Moreover, truly 🧻solar cells will enable completely different deployment strategies. Novel solar cell technologies based on organic solar cells or perovskite solar cells offer these advantages of being lightweight, potentially cheap 💶 and fully flexible academic.oup.com/nsr/article/1

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@NewSpaceEconomy In 📆 2022, the price 💵 per kilogram has dropped by more than 55% 📉 relative to SpaceX’s initial price in 📆 2010. As of 2022 the Falcon 9 price is consistently 50%, 📊 or more, lower then the vast majority of other launch vehicles past and present. newspaceeconomy.ca/2022/10/21/

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Interesting Engineering - Rocket Lab says reusable Neutron will 'compete directly with Falcon 9'

@intengineering 📆 Mar 27, 2023 charges $67 million 💵 per 9 launch, and Spice said aims to match this on a cost-per-kilogram basis. , which will have a slightly lower payload capacity of 28,660 lbs (13,000 kg) to , will target a "$50 million to $55 million 💵 launch service cost". Neutron is still on track for its first launch 🚀 next year. interestingengineering.com/inn

@NewSpaceEconomy 📆 June 6, 2022 : when begins offering commercial sometime in the future, 9 will not be the only competition Neutron will be compared against by customers deciding on a launch service provider. Of particular note, ’s , a super heavy lift launch vehicle, will be available for commercial service years before Neutron. Starship’s payload capacity and cost per kilogram will be orders of magnitude better than Neutron. newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/06/22/

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📆 30.06.2023 -C is unlikely to return to flights before 📆 2024.
The management recently recommended transferring the of the 🛰️ to . Given the current situation with 🇪🇺 carriers, it is possible that this is not the last such recommendation. universemagazine.com/en/the-fa

did not disclose additional details about the nature of the or loss of performance spacenews.com/vega-c-suffers-s

It seems they can't blame a supplier from 🇺🇦 this time ? 🤔 9 since 2019, 3 failures. $ 37 million 💵 for ~1,5 t payload en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(ro

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📆 Feb 2015 🇪🇺 “GeoReturn” policy : shows that technology has advanced sufficiently in the last 30 years ⌛ to enable new, game changing approaches to access. Why did none of the other even start to tap into this technological potential ? thespacereview.com/article/268

📆 Feb 2023 "We simply cannot compete with in the 🇺🇸 if we have to let everyone play along in . This is, if we don’t do anything, we will all collectively go down with the we have in 🇪🇺 these days" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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Which reason got the 45% which voted for to believe they would do better in the future than with 6 ?

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is
• en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whistle

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: "the operational costs alone for a single launch—for just the , spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion" 💰💰💰💰 * arstechnica.com/science/2022/0

4.1 billion / ~100k kg = 41.000 $ / kg 🤔

* As of Inspector General Paul Martin 📆 Mar 1, 2022

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mass to Low Orbit (), Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, Trans Injection and Transfer Orbit commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

. for the latter two aren't known yet. (10t ) 🇮🇳, (6,5 t ) 🇯🇵 aren't shown

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Unlike ’s , which falls into the ocean 🌊 after its payload is launched, the stainless steel 🚀 is designed to return to a soft landing on , to be used again. The represents a traditional 🕸️ government approach to — one that uses hardware originally designed in the 📆 1970s. would be able to lift more than 100 metric tons 💪. is capable of hoisting 27 metric tons. washingtonpost.com/technology/

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"the media doesn’t cover and with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for politics. People writing about are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye 👀 on how our national monies are spent."

Former Deputy Administrator Lori forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey

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📆 July 14, 2022 ’s primary goal is for the cost-per-tonne of thrust of to be under $1,000 — this means Raptor needs to be ~$250,000 💵 to produce everydayastronaut.com/spacex-r

📆 November 6, 2022 ships ’s 200th 📊 upgraded Raptor engine. SpaceX was also able to boost Raptor 2’s thrust by 25% 📈 teslarati.com/spacex-starship-

📆 May 1, 2020 will pay $146 million 💰💰💰💰💰 for each rocket engine. The needs four engines, and it is arstechnica.com/science/2020/0

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📆 Nov 17, 2018 will 🗑️ its new mega- if or can safely launch its own powerful : "we will eventually retire the system, and just move to a on those [rockets]" Stephen Jurczyk, NASA's associate administrator businessinsider.in/nasa-will-r

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Former Deputy NASA Administrator Lori : "Part of ’s problem, , could also be that the 📰 doesn’t cover space exploration and with the same rigor that they reserve for . People writing about are mostly 🥳 for the cause, rather than keeping a watchful eye 🔎 on how our national 💰 are spent" forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey

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Introducing the

"the system allowed the -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the ] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, of delays. "There was a incentive."

Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined and system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's ." cnet.com/science/space/billion

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