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The comparison gets even more muddled if you look at cost/launch where NASA's paying SpaceX $1.6bn/12 launches works out to $133m/launch, or about 2.4x what they're advertising for commercial sales; much smaller than the 20x from your price per kg numbers. The disparity is a combination of the ISS being in an awkward orbit, ISS cargo being volume rather than mass limited, and (I think) the 20,000kg number not including the mass of the dragon capsule that carries the delivered cargo.
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The comparison gets even more muddled if you look at cost/launch where NASA's paying SpaceX $1.6bn/12 launches works out to $133m/launch, or about 2.4x what they're advertising for commercial sales; much smaller than the 20x from your price per kg numbers. The disparity is a combination of the ISS being in an awkward orbit, ISS cargo being volume rather than mass limited, and (I think) the 20,000kg number not including the mass of the dragon capsule that carries the delivered cargo.
After a few edits I got it to:
The comparison gets even more muddled if you look at cost/launch where NASA's paying SpaceX 1.6bn dollars for 12 launches works out to $133m per launch, or about 2.4x what they're advertising for commercial sales; much smaller than the 20x from your price per kg numbers. The disparity is a combination of the ISS being in an awkward orbit, ISS cargo being volume rather than mass limited, and (I think) the 20,000kg number not including the mass of the dragon capsule that carries the delivered cargo.
...which wasn't mistaken for additional markup and mangled as a result. Was there I way I could've gotten the same result without having to remove most of the dollar and slash characters?