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posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 13 2020, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the cheaper-by-the-dozen dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday April 13 2020, @06:24PM (3 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday April 13 2020, @06:24PM (#982126) Journal

    So what the Russians are really pissed about is that we are propping Musk's space ambitions up instead of propping up Russia's.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday April 13 2020, @07:19PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday April 13 2020, @07:19PM (#982158) Journal

    They are pissed that they have agile competition and that a lucrative money maker is about to dry up.

    It's not just SpaceX. They will also have to contend with China and India, at a minimum.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Human_Spaceflight_Programme [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Disagree) by barbara hudson on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:29AM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:29AM (#982367) Journal

    Russia is less and less relevant, so not as much need to prop them up economically with seat purchases on Soyuz, and not as much need to keep up a pretence of international cooperation.

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