Comment on Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summerparentComments−fooker2yThe fuel costs about half a million.Beyond that it's mostly people's times and materials they have stockpiled for economies of scale.I would guess the lost satellites cost a bit more to manufacture that to launch in a reused Falcon 9.−elihu2yDon't they waste the upper stage on Falcon 9 launches? (That being one of the reasons they want to transition to using Starship.)−6nf2yThe fairings alone add another million. The whole upper stage is not re-used at all.−onethought2yThey recover the fairings.
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The fuel costs about half a million.
Beyond that it's mostly people's times and materials they have stockpiled for economies of scale.
I would guess the lost satellites cost a bit more to manufacture that to launch in a reused Falcon 9.
Don't they waste the upper stage on Falcon 9 launches? (That being one of the reasons they want to transition to using Starship.)
The fairings alone add another million. The whole upper stage is not re-used at all.
They recover the fairings.