No one in the general public can know for sure. 2) Cost using a more commercial development approach. That means Falcon Heavy has enough contracts to cover the cost of its development, which was more than $500 million, Musk noted last year, with the all funding coming from inside SpaceX.
In 2011, SpaceX estimated that Falcon 9 v1.0 development costs were on the order of $300 million. Russia quietly shelves development of sole SpaceX Falcon 9 ... the vehicle was estimated by Russia itself to cost ... was being designed as a purely commercial competitor to SpaceX’s Falcon 9. The complex expertise and launch infrastructure to fly all of it wouldn’t be included. cost of 2nd stage = 1 * cost of merlin + ( cost of stage 1 fuselage / 2 ) Cost of each Merlin engine is ~$1.5M. All that for a rocket which has the payload throw mass (aka how much the rocket can put into space) of about 2/3rds of what SLS Block I claims to be able to launch. All that for a rocket which has the payload throw mass (aka how much the rocket can put into space) of about 2/3rds of what SLS Block I claims to be able to launch. Competitors or new commercial launchers won’t bother to buy out the SpaceX technology. Also, of note is how the Falcon Heavy cost SpaceX about a roughly $500 million to develop (on top of Falcon 9 development costs) and about $90 million per launch. Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle NAFCOM Cost Estimate • The objective of the analysis was to estimate the cost to develop the Falcon 9 launch vehicle using two different approaches: 1) traditional NASA envi/lironment/culture, and 2) a more commercilial dldevelopment culture approach. Russia quietly shelves development of sole SpaceX Falcon 9 ... the vehicle was estimated by Russia itself to cost ... was being designed as a purely commercial competitor to SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Under methodology #1, the cost model predicted that the Falcon 9 would cost \$4 billion based on a traditional approach. Cost of first stage is speculated earlier to be between $30M to $35M; but assuming here as $29M. Cost of second stage fuselage is roughly half of first stage.
Under methodology #1, the cost model predicted that the Falcon 9 would cost $4.0 billion based on a traditional approach. The mission will mark the debut of the Block 5 version of the company’s Falcon 9, the most advanced upgrade of the rocket to date and the last major version of … SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals a new detail about the company's new Falcon Heavy rocket. NASA evaluated that development costs would have been $3.6 billion if a traditional cost-plus contract approach had been used. 1) Cost to develop Falcon 9 using traditional NASA approach, and 2) Cost using a more commercial development approach. So: cost of first stage = 9 * cost of merlin + cost of fuselage. Under methodology #2, NAFCOM predicted \$1.7 billion when the inputs were adjusted to a more commercial development … SpaceX is not a publicly traded company so they don’t have to publish their financial data. A maxed-out version of the rocket would cost $150 million per launch, Musk says in a tweet.
Also, of note is how the Falcon Heavy cost SpaceX about a roughly $500 million to develop (on top of Falcon 9 development costs) and about $90 million per launch. In 2014, SpaceX released total combined development costs for both the Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule. That’s bothersome because you’d just be buying the hardware.