MOSCOW, 26 APR – RIA Novosti. The company “glavkosmos launch services” believes that the American company SpaceX Elon musk cheap reusable rocket, as their real full price originally paid by NASA or DoD, to the materials published by the company in Facebook.
Earlier, the General Director of the Russian space Agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said the dumping of the SpaceX, consists in the fact that the market price of the launch of the carrier rocket Falcon-9 is about $ 60 million, but NASA and the Pentagon it costs 1.5-4 times more expensive. After that, Musk said his rockets Falcon-9 80 percent reusable, and the rest, including Russian, to 0 percent, and this is an important issue. Rogozin said that Roscosmos does not need his advice.
“we get the following statistics: for the domestic market the same materiel (rocket Falcon-9 – ed.) stands for NASA and the air force (the U.S. – ed.) is different, although the prices are close, the materiel is significantly more expensive than SpaceX sells it on the international market in the framework of commercial launch services”, – stated in the research company “glavkosmos launch services”.
“when you consider that the total NASA has funded SpaceX to the amount of more than $ 7 billion in contracts to develop technologies and ensure delivery of cargo and astronauts to the ISS, we can conclude that the technology of reusability (reusability, ed.), the state of Affairs today, from the economic point of view is justified only in the case of “anchor” customer of launch services in the internal market (in the case of SpaceX is NASA and USAF), willing to pay the maximum or full value for materiel booster, some of which will then be reused in the framework of commercial launch services on the external market”, – noted in the study.
records States that “the reuse of materiel booster need first time to make it for a full refund, and then sell it either for the same reason plans to use it several times (and it is important not to forget about the return of the investment that has been invested in the development of missiles, as well as expenses for repair work of equipment), or use another model that is more secure for business.
“In the second case someone of the customers, startup must pay SpaceX the maximum or full value for materiel Falcon 9 or Heavy,” said the company.
as an example, “glavkosmos launch services” leads to the situation in 2016-2017. “NASA paid for delivery of cargo to the ISS using a new rocket Falcon-9. The first step was returned and re-used to provide commercial launch services for the removal of the spacecraft SES-10”, – explained in the study.
currently the world’s main commercial launch services in addition to SpaceX provide the company with ILS (rocket “proton” and “Angara”), “glavkosmos” and “glavkosmos launch services” (rocket “Soyuz”), Arianespace (rocket Vega, Soyuz and Ariane 5) and ULA (missiles Atlas 5 and Delta 4). While SpaceX is the only company that uses reusable stage in their missiles.
