Sentences with phrase «rocket fuel cost»

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.

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.

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.

President Trump is calling the latest Republican tax plan «rocket fuel for the economy,» adding that the new bill would cost him a fortune and has proven unpopular with the wealthy.

«Ministers can't expect the public to heed their calls to cut car use when their own fuel costs are rising, driver salaries have rocketed, and mileage has doubled.»

By using reusable rockets, spacecraft, and tankers; refueling the Mars landers in orbit; and also producing fuel from available resources on Mars for the return trips, a colonist's cost for a ticket to Mars could be as little as $ 100,000, Musk says.

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 of this rocket fuel is extremely cheap.

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.

Meaning the price paid per kg or tonne solar panel delivered to GEO in rocket fuel is about the same cost.

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

So cost rocket fuel from earth is 74 times $ 2 as compared to $ 150 per kg and needing 1.

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.

SpaceX Falcon 9: Mass (GTO, 5.2 m fairing): 332,800 kg (733,800 lb) Rocket fuel is about $ 2 per kg so fuel cost per launch is about $ 660,000 SpaceX price per launch is about 60 million if they sell 5 launches per year they would gross about 300 million per year.

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

If you manage to provide rocket fuel at only 100 times the cost rocket fuel on Earth, that is VERY cheap - a very exciting bargain.

So most chemical rocket use oxygen [and oxygen is the most massive component] so if one had gas station which just provided oxygen «fuel» this would drastically lower cost.