At this point, the other commercial orbital lift companies are basically cooked, it's a matter of time. Blue Origin could be an interesting player, but who knows.
The question is this: can he drive even more demand by lowering the price somewhat? That's an interesting question, and one I'm sure being discussed at SpaceX.
You're speaking of what they charge.
I'm curious (and fwiw I'm not the OP, so I have no idea if they were asking this... :) what it costs.
Put another way, I wonder what this does to their margins?
... like building a LEO constellation of 11,943 satellites.
The upper limit comes from the fact that they are currently only reusing the first stage, and that the first stage core is ~75% of the cost of a launch.
So, if they can use a core n times, they get a % discount:
2 38%
3 50%
4 56%
5 60%
10 68%
They are planning on additional future reuse, the next portion is probably recovering the fairings.This one probably isn't reusable since it landed in the water. Their next goal is to make a floating "bouncy castle" to land it on.
Can't wait to learn what name they'll pick for it.
This development is great. So much fun to watch.
Re-usable rockets should increase their capacity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
This will slow the earth's rotation slightly. Future generations will rue our profligate wastage of earth's angular momentum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_safety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708
There's an energy benefit for some launches at lower latitudes, but that's separate from being near an ocean:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-launches-to-orbit-take-pla...