Electron "is just 56 feet tall and can carry only 500 pounds into space." nytimes.com/2018/11/10/sci…. "The list price for launching 500 pounds of payload into low Earth orbit is $5 million." google.com/amp/s/www.geek…
"That’s a cost-to-weight ratio of $10,000/pound of payload." The key to increasing rocket launch demand is new revenue generating commercial services that increase TAM rather than cannibalize existing space based services. Those services must be economic at that price per pound.
As everyone knows, a high latitude rocket launch from a place like New Zealand makes it easier to put satellites into polar or Molniya orbits. Being a primary and not a secondary payload has value. Almost everything in space based activity and life generally, involves trade-offs.
"factories in New Zealand and California "have been specifically designed to produce one rocket a week," Beck said. Rocket Lab aims to be launching at a weekly rate in 2020 Next year we're starting off at one a month trying to move to one every two weeks." cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/11…
