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If you can deliver a payload and recover and fully reuse the rocket then your costs drop by an order of magnitude. I can't imagine that the economics won't work out.


Depends on cost of refurb


They're shooting for no refurb on per mission basis and potentially to fly it the next day. Apparently the first stage is about 70% of the total $60M mission cost.


I will cry tears of joy when they send that first stage up in less than 24 hrs, return it and launch again.


I'm willing to bet that this will happen before the end of the decade (i'm guessing 2017)




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