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Space-X has lowered costs by almost an order of magnitude, if I remember the numbers.



I don't think this is true. It's something Musk likes to say, but a source would be useful.


I'm sure the launch costs (which can be worked into $/kg for payload) can be easily looked up, and show that SpaceX's reused rockets are much cheaper than what came before.


Do you have a source?

We haven't seen a reduction in space insurance premiums of any particularly large magnitude which I would expect if the costs of launching satellites into space had been substantially reduced.


Falcon 9 is as cheap as Proton M according to something google found somewhere.


SpaceX is a small fraction of total lifts though.


Something like 20-25% of all launchs globally doesn't seem like a small fraction.




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