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Russia Space Chief Spars with Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing

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, @06:48PM (3 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday April 13 2020, @06:48PM (#982140) Journal

    Soviet Russia was dead and gone before ISS was started.

    Your point? Just because it would have been impossible for them to follow through doesn't mean they didn't do it.

    If Mickey Mouse can vote, the Soviets can continue to offer free flights to the ISS

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 13 2020, @07:32PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 13 2020, @07:32PM (#982171) Journal

    If Mickey Mouse can vote, the Soviets can continue to offer free flights to the ISS

    I think I'd like to have a little of what Mickey Mouse is smoking.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 13 2020, @07:37PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday April 13 2020, @07:37PM (#982177) Journal

    Roscosmos can't afford Make-A-Wish charity launches. They will launch capitalist pigs, until SpaceX takes that business away from them. ☹

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:20PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:20PM (#983014) Journal

    The point he is making is that there are no 'soviets'. There are Russians, but the Soviet Union ceased to exist decades ago. You are using an outdated term in a - presumably - derogatory way for some reason or other.

    The current ruling party in Russia is the United Russia party led, of course, by Putin.

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