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MHI Goal For New Launcher Design: Saving Money

Bradley Perrett May 07, 2014
Credit: JAXA
A version of this article appears in the May 5 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology. While the smallest version of Japan’s H-IIA space launcher costs around ¥10 billion ($100 million) a shot, Space Exploration Technologies charges $56.5 million for launches by its comparable Falcon 9 rocket...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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