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Capabilities & Services (Falcon 9 / Falcon Heavy price sheet), spacex.com

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• CLM-0534 SpaceX's published Falcon 9 price is lower per launch than the 100 million dollars both the US and UK studies assumed, but higher per kilogram, because Falcon 9 carries far less than the rocket those studies assumed. A real government order in late 2025 for five missions averaged more than 100 million dollars each. Neither figure allows for getting from low orbit up to the power station's real orbit.
• CLM-1450 (low confidence) SpaceX's price sheet lists a Falcon 9 launch at 74 million dollars, and 22,000 kilograms as the most it can carry to low orbit if the rocket is not recovered. Using those listed figures with the US study's own way of counting the extra launches needed to reach the power station's orbit gives a cost per kilogram about four times what the US study's own assumptions give, and the UK study's lowest input would need launches about ninety times cheaper than that listed figure. Both studies turn to electric propulsion for part of the climb, NASA only in the case where it finds a competitive cost, and this has not been shown at power-station scale.

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