{"id":92186,"date":"2019-06-16T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/space-gets-100-times-cheaper-by-2023-and-we-will-get-moon-bases-and-more"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:04:10","slug":"space-gets-100-times-cheaper-by-2023-and-we-will-get-moon-bases-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/space-gets-100-times-cheaper-by-2023-and-we-will-get-moon-bases-and-more","title":{"rendered":"Space Gets 100 Times Cheaper By 2023 and We Will Get Moon Bases and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-gets-100-times-cheaper-by-2023-and-we-will-get-moon-bases-and-more2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX gets a fully reusable Super Heavy Starship flying to orbit in 2020 and then has 100 fully reusable flights by 2023 then the cost of space will drop by 100 times. This will start fulfilling the plans for lunar bases, lunar mining, and space-based solar power.<\/p>\n<p>If each Super Heavy Starship costs $300 million and has $1 million in operating and maintenance cost per flight then the per flight cost is $4 million. Super Heavy Starship is supposed to launch about 100 tons to orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that 800 Starlink satellites are launched by April 2020, then SpaceX will start doubling its revenue from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/05\/spacex-starlink-will-equal-launch-revenue-in-2020-and-will-make-elon-the-worlds-richest-person-by-2023.html\">$2\u20133 billion to $5\u20136 billion in<\/a> 2020 and ten billion in 2021. This will mean that SpaceX will be able to afford to build dozens of Super Heavy Starships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If SpaceX gets a fully reusable Super Heavy Starship flying to orbit in 2020 and then has 100 fully reusable flights by 2023 then the cost of space will drop by 100 times. This will start fulfilling the plans for lunar bases, lunar mining, and space-based solar power. If each Super Heavy Starship costs $300 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}