Sentences with phrase «cost of this rocket fuel»

The cost of this rocket fuel is extremely cheap.

Let's simplify it, by looking at the cheapest that a rocket could cost, based on the costs of rocket fuel.

And the cost of the rocket fuel from earth costs $ 660,000 of rocket cost of 20 million.

Not exact matches

SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk believes that reusability of rockets will not only reduce fuel costs, but also make Space Tourism a reality.

A source of rocket fuel beyond Earth's gravity would slash the cost of space travel dramatically; propellant can account for 95 percent of the mass of current launches.

The cost instead 5000 per kg to GEO and $ 8000 per kg to lunar surface, will instead $ 5000 plus rocket fuel cost at lunar orbit [450 per kg] plus the use of a reusable spacecraft.

Instead lunar water costing 100 per kg, it easily be $ 75 per kg and cost of electrical cost to make rocket fuel less $ 25 per kg of rocket fuel made.

So rocket fuel cost on earth are rather small part of the cost of the rocket, and even though one is paying 75 times more for rocket fuel on the Moon it's equally a rather insignificant cost of the rocket launch per tonne or kg delivered to GEO.

So being easily able to reuse rocket from the moon the cost to deliver might equal about 3 to 4 times the rocket fuel used - so cost of $ 600 per kg delivered.