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Hey Everyone, I have decided to quit this forum. I have consistently noticed the overbearing attitude of the folks running this forum. They encourage folks who subscribe to their very narrow worldview - even if it comes with falsehoods, intimidation and insults; while at the same time they...

Right now SpaceX hasn't demonstrated 'reusability'. Couple of years back, it would have been laughable to think someone would land a rocket back on earth VERTICALLY and that too on a FLOATING PLATFORM. SpaceX did it!!! They would love to use it as many times as possible - no real data as yet...

The official statement was that ISRO recovered around half the cost of the launch via the foreign satellite launch. If you have the total cost (from somewhere) then you could do some math to figure it out. Sorry, don't have much more info..

SpaceX has around $4 billion in contracts just to resupply to ISS. Another $6 billion contract for Mars mission. They'll more than adequately recoup all their R&D costs! There goal is (after having signed the contracts) reuse the rockets and then save significant portion of their operating...

I see a lot posts comparing ISRO and how the Chinese are doing in this area! But the actual business competition in the low-cost space market won't be Chinese or any other third world country but the United States itself. SpaceX is very close to commercializing reusable rockets, which will drop...