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Skyskimmer
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Alright here goes bored at school, with no way home so here goes. I wanna make up a business model for space colinization. It's simple to the point, and is not about being accurate or perfect, simply a way to put across understanding of what could be done to make living in space a reality,
First off getting launch costs to 1000 per kilogram seems like it's very easy to do, if spacex can do what it's doing now. It's assumed that there should be able to get a 3-400 percent reduction in cost done if A) cut through red tape of goverments/nasa/defense. B) Get the launch volume up from about 20 metric tons a year to about 5000 tons per year(that's about 5 billion in launch costs. (remeber india's space program alone is 2 bill a year).
Than assume that 50 percent goes into developing payloads/rnd/manufacturing costs.
Assume it cost about 1mil to launch someone to space.
The question becomes how much would it cost to build a space station for 1500 people in orbit. And how much would it cost to for upkeep.
My guess is that it'd cost 1.5 billion to get the people up there. Plus another 15 billion to build a station, keep it in orbit and feed people. Over a period of 10-15 years. Not much in terms of nasa type budgets.
First off getting launch costs to 1000 per kilogram seems like it's very easy to do, if spacex can do what it's doing now. It's assumed that there should be able to get a 3-400 percent reduction in cost done if A) cut through red tape of goverments/nasa/defense. B) Get the launch volume up from about 20 metric tons a year to about 5000 tons per year(that's about 5 billion in launch costs. (remeber india's space program alone is 2 bill a year).
Than assume that 50 percent goes into developing payloads/rnd/manufacturing costs.
Assume it cost about 1mil to launch someone to space.
The question becomes how much would it cost to build a space station for 1500 people in orbit. And how much would it cost to for upkeep.
My guess is that it'd cost 1.5 billion to get the people up there. Plus another 15 billion to build a station, keep it in orbit and feed people. Over a period of 10-15 years. Not much in terms of nasa type budgets.