Interesujące dane nt kosztów startów rakiet wielokrotnego użytku.SpaceX’s Tuesday twilight Falcon 9 rocket launch sends 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbitFebruary 24, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith
(...) A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1092 landed on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of The Bahamas. This was the 151st landing on this vessel and the 576th booster landing for SpaceX to date.
Price increasesOne of SpaceX’s biggest selling points for reusability of its Falcon 9 boosters and payload fairings is that this drives down the overall cost of launching payloads into space. However, that doesn’t mean that the company doesn’t raise its prices.
The company updated its Falcon 9 rocket Capabilities and Services page. It now states that a standard payment plan through 2026 for a Falcon 9 rocket launching up to 5.5 metric tons to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is $74 million, up from $70 million in 2025.
In 2022, SpaceX listed Falcon 9 launches with the same payload capacity at $67 million, citing possible future price increases due to inflation.
According to reporting from Ars Technica earlier this month, SpaceX’s internal costs for launching a reusable Falcon 9 rocket is $15 million.
For comparison, another rocket that aims to compete with the Falcon 9 in the future is Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket. In the Q1 earnings call in May 2025, the company’s CEO Peter Beck said the company expected that a dedicated flight of its reusable rocket would be in the area of $55 million.
Pricing for other rockets can be harder to determine, but for a rocket like Blue Origin’s New Glenn, which can carry 13 metric tons to GTO is estimated to cost around $68 million per flight. NASA only paid $20 to fly its EscaPADE mission in November 2025, which carried a higher risk because it was just the second flight of the rocket to date.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/02/24/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-29-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-8/William Harwood @cbs_spacenews 11:37 PM · Feb 24, 2026
F9/Starlink 6-110: SpaceX is counting down to a sunset launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink internet satellites; liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeted for 6:04pm EST (2304 UTC); at nearby KSC pad 39B, meanwhile, NASA's crawler-transporter reached the top of the pad surface around 5:30pm; assuming winds cooperate, NASA plans to haul the Artemis II SLS rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building Wednesday for repairs to its 2nd stage helium pressurization system, battery replacements, etc.
https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/2026426160406736953
F9/Starlink 6-110: The Falcon 9 lifted off at 6:04pm EST (2304 UTC); 1st stage B1092 completed its 10th flight with a picture-perfect landing on an offshore droneship, SpaceX's 473 booster recovery at sea and its 576th overall; the Falcon 9's 2nd stage, meanwhile, reached its planned preliminary orbit 8 minutes and 40 seconds after liftoff; a second burn of the upper stage engine was expected at 6:58pm EST (2358 UTC) with Starlink release following 11 minutes later
https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/2026437969112924272
Wątek: Falcon-9R B1092.10 | Starlink Group 6-110 | 24.02.2026 (Przeczytany 493 razy)