[amsat-bb] Latest SpaceX GEO launch cost.

[Ryan Butler]

That was also an expended rocket, mainly due to customer wanting to
preserve more satellite propellant for station keeping in the future.  A
payload on a landable F9 is typically cheaper, so I'm not sure much can be
gleaned from that article.

Ryan, NF0T


On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:05 AM Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> The $250 million satellite cost in the article INCLUDED getting into
> orbit.  According to
> https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/spacex-price.gif, the
> SpaceX price to GTO was $62Million in 2016, but that still counts as
> staggering.  Of course this is for a dedicated launch.  As a secondary
> payload it would be less but still way more than the cost to LEO (which
> some might call affordable :-) )  And if you have followed the Virginia
> Tech work with AMSAT, there has been an attempt to share a satellite in
> geosynchronous orbit, but no luck yet.  Most commercial companies are not
> too interested in adding risk or mass to their satellites (notice that the
> AMOS satellite take up pretty nearly the full mass capability of the Falcon
> 9 to GEO.
>
> But how about an ARISS ham package on the Lunar Gateway?  Now that's going
> to be cool, and looks like it could really happen!
>
> 73,
>
> Burns WB1FJ
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:51 AM Joe via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I read that article twice, and I do not see any mention as the cost from
> > Space X to put the Sat into orbit. All I see if the cost of the Sat
> > only. Nothing about what it cost to get it into orbit.
> >
> > Joe WB9SBD
> > Sig
> > The Original Rolling Ball Clock
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> > On 8/9/2019 8:31 AM, KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > Just saw this latest effort by SpaceX to launch the Israeli AMOS
> > satellite into GEO orbit.
> > > The cost is staggering.
> > >
> > > Maybe we should go with somehow securing transponder bandwidth on
> > existing GEO satellites as an alternative ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launch-today-live-stream-falcon-9-set-to-launch-israeli-satellite-3-years-after-explosion-destroyed-first-one/
> > >
> > > Bernard,
> > > KC9SGV
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
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