On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a first draft of a $66M robotic shuttle with 3,000 tons > payload. Transport costs some $0.07 per pound with pessimistic > assumptions on the shuttle lifetime, except that the price of > reaction mass could become a significant factor, just like > finding full loads for each launch.
At seven cents the pound to get into orbit, all sorts of things become possible to ship. Fresh fruit, for instance. Or it would make sense to use it for long-distance shipping on the planet's surface. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
