The project of the American Spacex Corporation on the regular launch of small satellites at a single price with the help of Falcon 9 missiles will begin making a profit by the end of the first year. To this conclusion came the initiative of the company Ilona Mask, MSTU Bauman MSK, reports RIA Novosti.
Theses of the report are published in the collection of academic cosmonautics readings. Its authors recognize that with the help of the new project Spacex will be able to successfully respond to growing competition from private and state-owned companies that are developing and used to start missile carriers of light and middle class.
The mask company plans to launch satellites weighing up to 200 kilograms almost every month. The launch cost will be one – a million dollars, and it is less than competitors.
Calculations of Russian specialists took into account investments in the project, payments for launch, returning the first stage, its maintenance and insurance. As a result, despite all the costs, in less than a year, the profitability of the project turns out about 15-20 percent.
In October last year, the head of the Russian Space Corporation “Roskosmos” Dmitry Rogozin said that he doubted the economy of reusable launches of missiles proposed by Spacex. According to him, the calculations of Russian specialists do not confirm the effectiveness of such a decision.
Later, by December, Rogozin told that with respect refers to the “engineering and propaganda” talents of Ilona Mask, but recalled that the work of a private company leads to state money.