> which Musk recently bragged could cost as little as $1 million per launch.
Didn't realize you could brag about things that haven't happened
Didn't realize you could brag about things that haven't happened
He didn't say 'We are awesome its so cheap'. He was asked to project and explain what they were working towards and did so.
Bragging about something in the future is as old as the time. Or are we talking about different meaning?
I wonder if Tesla owners will ever get a refund for the self-driving feature they bought and will never work.
SpaceX might be able to get to $1M marginal cost for a launch, but you can bet they will never sell launches for that.
So, if they mark it up by an order of magnitude for external customers, you're predicting that a Starship launch might be cheaper than a Falcon 9 launch is, today, with a capacity of a dozen times the Falcon 9?
Cheaper per pound is fine, but teasing with prices 10x less than you will actually charge is no more honest than charging for a self-driving feature that kills people who rely on it.