A Twitter user forwarded a piece of news, saying that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has now ‘de facto’ monopolized the rocket launch market, including transporting astronauts, launching satellites, and dominate the competition.
In response, Elon Musk responded: “The goal of the country and the company is too low. The lack of ambition is their shortcoming. SpaceX’s mission is to make life multi-planetary. Even if it can only achieve a little success in this goal, It will also lead to better performance in Earth orbit.”
Since SpaceX is not a public company, we do not have access to its revenue figures. However, considering the rate of SpaceX’s rocket launch service and the achievements of more than 60 launches per year, I believe its data must be impressive.
According to previously published information, SpaceX starts at $67 million for a single mission, which allows Falcon 9 to send 5.5 tons of payload into geostationary orbit (GTO) ), or spend 97 million US dollars to let the Falcon Heavy rocket send 8 tons of payload into the same orbit. On a per-kilo basis, that translates to $12,181 for the Falcon 9 and $12,125 for the Falcon Heavy.
A few days ago, NASA announced the crew list of the Crew-7 mission. The four astronauts will take the SpaceX “Endurance” manned Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station on August 15, Eastern Time, and will be in orbit. Stay for 6 months.
