I'd say I disagree. SpaceX has the only mostly reusable rocket so it makes sense for them to keep the price as high as the next cheapest launcher and exploit the gap with their own payloads.
When there is a second cheap rocket then we will see if a large market forms. Given the amount of earth sensing and comms companies I think there is a good chance of it.
And so far rockets have been optimised for earth orbit, getting further than that is an order of magnitude more difficult and with dubious payoff. The money is in services for humans, not mining.
But prices have come down, and demand hasn’t met that price reduction? That’s the point. The lack of demand means others won’t be able to reduce prices to compete with SpaceX. Unless they do what Blue is also doing, and generating internal demand again. But there’s no market demand for reusable launch.
Prices have come down and there is a backlog of demand is there not? The recent news of New Glenn was reported to be especially terrible because so many were relying on it in their plans to get more stuff into space. RocketLab is also booked out for years.
SpaceX is likely not producing more Falcon 9 rockets because they are focusing on Starship instead.
What I'm picking up from the space news is that there is a bottleneck in the rocket department, not a lack of demand. The demand might not look like space mining or even manufacturing, which still have dubious economics, but it's there for less novel applications.
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I'd say I disagree. SpaceX has the only mostly reusable rocket so it makes sense for them to keep the price as high as the next cheapest launcher and exploit the gap with their own payloads.
When there is a second cheap rocket then we will see if a large market forms. Given the amount of earth sensing and comms companies I think there is a good chance of it.
And so far rockets have been optimised for earth orbit, getting further than that is an order of magnitude more difficult and with dubious payoff. The money is in services for humans, not mining.
But prices have come down, and demand hasn’t met that price reduction? That’s the point. The lack of demand means others won’t be able to reduce prices to compete with SpaceX. Unless they do what Blue is also doing, and generating internal demand again. But there’s no market demand for reusable launch.
Prices have come down and there is a backlog of demand is there not? The recent news of New Glenn was reported to be especially terrible because so many were relying on it in their plans to get more stuff into space. RocketLab is also booked out for years.
SpaceX is likely not producing more Falcon 9 rockets because they are focusing on Starship instead.
What I'm picking up from the space news is that there is a bottleneck in the rocket department, not a lack of demand. The demand might not look like space mining or even manufacturing, which still have dubious economics, but it's there for less novel applications.