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Yeah, my back of the napkin analysis is probably missing a bunch of important stuff. I just wanted to highlight the fact that simply looking at the failure rates is not enough -- you have to consider the amortized cost of getting your stuff into space successfully. Maybe tolerating a few failures saves money in the long run.

(Of course this all assumes a replaceable payload. I am sure the analysis would be quite different for carrying people into space.)




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