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SpaceX Falcon Heavy costs between $90 and 150 million and Delta IV Heavy around $350-400 million

• nextbigfuture.com by brian wang

United Launch says the cost of the Delta IV Heavy is $350 million.

SpaceX had said the cost of each Falcon Heavy launch starts at $90 million. But that price tag — a fraction of the cost of the next biggest rockets from competitors United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Arianespace.

David Legangneux
@dlxinorbit
Just under $400M for Delta IV Heavy, not over. The cost of the Parker Solar Probe launch is $389.1M (contract announced in 2015).

Elon Musk
That was three years ago, before ULA canceled all medium versions of Delta IV. Future missions have all Delta fixed costs piled on, so their cost is now $600M+ for missions contracted for launch after 2020. Nutty high.