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Fourier864yesterday at 11:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Ok I realize you're making a point, but 10 launches a day comes out to about $15 trillion a year, that's like half of the US GDP


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 9:32 AM

> 10 launches a day comes out to about $15 trillion a year

At SLS prices, yes. Falcon Heavy runs at $141mm per launch; 3,650 launches would cost half a trillion.

system2today at 5:23 PM

Not as much, but we were okay to spend $12T on the Iraq war.