Comment on End of an era: Final Delta IV heavy rocket carries NROL-70 on historic missionparentComments−Rebelgecko2yI think Wiki is wrong, IIRC this was part of a block buy of three launches for $450 million−lern_too_spel2yYes, Wikipedia says $2.2 billion for 5 launches, but the reference says $1.18 billion for 5 launches, where NROL-70 was part of a three launch buy for $467.5 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_IV_Heavy_launc...−zaphoyd2ythe reference says $1.18 billion just for "launch operation costs" that doesn't include the hardware. Farther down the source cites the hardware + operations as $2.2B/5 launches
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I think Wiki is wrong, IIRC this was part of a block buy of three launches for $450 million
Yes, Wikipedia says $2.2 billion for 5 launches, but the reference says $1.18 billion for 5 launches, where NROL-70 was part of a three launch buy for $467.5 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_IV_Heavy_launc...
the reference says $1.18 billion just for "launch operation costs" that doesn't include the hardware. Farther down the source cites the hardware + operations as $2.2B/5 launches