Evolution of the price per kg of payload (LEO) for several space missions:

🇺🇸 Space Shuttle - $19.8k/kg
🇪🇺 Ariane 5 - $10.3k/kg
🇷🇺 Soyuz FG - $7.2k/kg
🇯🇵 H-IIB - $7.1k/kg
🇨🇳 LongMarch 3B - $5.8k/kg
🇮🇳 Polar Satellite - $3.9k/kg
SpaceX Falcon - $2.7k/kg
SpaceX Falcon 9 (reuse) - $1.9k/kg

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