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		TMWNN on Oct 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video... Besides what 55555 said, in the near term SpaceX has indeed passed at least some of the cost savings onto customers. NASA administrator Bill Nelson quoted a member of the Joint Chiefs as telling him that SpaceX had saved the US government $40 billion for just launching military payloads. <https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/05/did-spacex-really-...> On the civilian side, SpaceX saved NASA $2 billion for just one payload, Europa Clipper <https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/a-year-from-launch-the...>, so who knows how many billions more from other launches.

cryptonector on Oct 14, 2024 | [–]

Sounds like those savings exceed the subsidies that some love to point out SpaceX has gotten from the government.

season2episode3 on Oct 14, 2024 | [–]

If only the military budget went down by 40b in response to these new cost savings.

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