SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The head of Russia's space agency on Saturday accused Elon Musk's SpaceX of predatory pricing for space launches, which is pushing Russia to cut its own prices. "Instead of honest competition on the market for space launches, they are lobbying for sanctions against us and use price dumping with impunity," Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter.
Rogozin, who is often outspoken on Twitter and previously engaged in online banter with Elon Musk, on Friday raised the issue during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
He said the Roscosmos space agency "is working to lower prices by more than 30 percent on launch services to increase our share on the international markets." "This is our answer to dumping by American companies financed by the US budget," he said. The market price of a SpaceX launch is $60 million, but NASA pays up to four times that amount, he said.
Musk responded to the criticism Saturday by saying on Twitter: "SpaceX rockets are 80% reusable, theirs are 0%. This is the actual problem."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @06:06PM
That is an interesting position to take.
Did you know that the world's largest company by market value, and also the large company owned by the world's richest man, were both started by individuals in their garages and subsidized by absolutely nothing except the personal (middle class) wealth of their founders? And the company that provided Elon Musk with the wealth he used to form Tesla and SpaceX (ok, buy, in the case of Tesla) also was formed in such a way?
There are a lot of really obvious counterexamples to your bizarre and completely false belief.