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the toll booth between an idea and orbit, and it never takes cash.
means the total price of hurling a payload past gravity's veto, counted per kilogram to space.
from tracked since the 1960s as dollars-per-kilogram-to-orbit, the metric that quietly gatekept the entire space age until reusable rockets started crashing the party.
space shuttle eraabout 54,500 dollars per kilogram to orbit
falcon 9 reusedropped costs below 3,000 dollars per kilogram
starship goalaims for under 100 dollars per kilogram
fuel sharepropellant is often under 1 percent of total cost