On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:52:58 -0800, Pierce Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Figure you are probably averaging around $40-$50/hr labor costs, >including benefits and ancillary employment costs. That's $0k-$50k per >flight -- not too shabby. That could easily support a per-flight cost of >$500k, all up. That may sound like a lot of money, but even if your vehicle >can only launch 1000kg, that's a cost of $500/kg, which is an order of >magnitude of improvement over even Russian prices, and not to be sneezed at. $500,000 for a flight to orbit is so much cheaper than anything else out there that it should bring you customers with little regard to how much you can lift. And, if you can hit $500/kg, that's $225/lb, well below the hypothesized "magic" $500/lb needed to get off the demand plateau. -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
