/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16088607
marginal cost is basically useless except as a theoretical curiosity in spaceflight. the launch market is nowhere close to competitive, firms exercise massive market power, and the entry costs are extreme. if you went by marginal cost, then the space shuttle was cheap - less than $100m per flight in today's money, see pic. the cost estimate pdf provided was clearly not talking about marginal cost since it specifies that it's including amortized costs.