";s:4:"text";s:2070:"The Falcon Heavy test flight (also known as Falcon Heavy demonstration mission) was the first attempt by SpaceX to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018 at 20:45 UTC. In comparison, SpaceX’s Falcon rockets, which are also multilaunch rockets, cost significantly more than Starship. Well, they *charge* $62 million to $100 million. First stage We also know that the first stage is approximately "less than three-quarters" of the cost of the entire rocket.
Musk has famously stated at the National Press Club that the cost of propellant is only 0.3% the cost of the rocket, which yields about \$200,000 for a $60m launch. [Edit]
That means Falcon Heavy has enough contracts to cover the cost of its development, which was more than $500 million, Musk noted last year, with the all funding coming from inside SpaceX. Only a launch of the unmanned EM1 mission aboard an unnamed (but presumably Falcon Heavy) rocket is even a possibility on the table from what …
It’s not clear what it *costs*. But where the Falcon Heavy comes out ahead is in economy. NASA’s Space Shuttle had a cost of about $1.5 billion to launch 27,500 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), $54,500/kg.