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		mtgx on Dec 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poach... That doesn't explain why other companies still have much more expensive rockets, though. As far as I know, SpaceX has the cheapest ones by far.

pmorici on Dec 19, 2012 [–]

The other companies are in general legacy NASA contractors or partnerships of the same. They are probably stuck in there ways they are essentially offering the same technology that NASA paid them to develop all these years.

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