I believe the cost per pound per launch is a lot cheaper with the Falcon Heavy.
Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - Falcon Heavy Most of the stuff I've been seeing says it is the most powerful since the Saturn V. Looks like the Falcon Heavy has about 4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, whereas the Saturn V had about 7.6 million. Not sure what the weight / thrust ratio is on each of these though. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I keep seeing articles about the proposed new "mega rocket" from SpaceX, how it would have a higher payload capacity than any current launch vehicle and could be used for manned missions to Mars. I thought wow, let me look up how much bigger it will be than the Saturn V. Turns out, it will have less than half the payload capacity of a Saturn V. Granted it will be far more economical and may be reusable, so it's not really a fair comparison. But still, some of that Cold War era technology was pretty impressive. We can't afford it anymore though.
