spacecost 0.6.0

0.6.0 - 2026-10-06

Data contract 1.17.3 → 1.18.0: four values re-pinned to their sources.
Every one is a General_Research revision candidate whose source the registry
read and whose number the row's own method, applied correctly, moves. Each is
named.

• Atlas V 551 (rc-051, launch_vehicles.csv): $153M is ULA's 2016
  RocketBuilder base, and the row is labelled 2026 dollars. Carried by CPI-U
  (Dec 2016 to Aug 2026, x1.3771) it is $211M, $11,215/kg to LEO where it
  was $8,132.
• Minotaur IV (rc-050): the high end carried ~$50M (2010) forward at x1.45,
  an annual CPI chain that stopped at 2024. CPI-U to Aug 2026 is x1.5155, so
  the high end is $76M and the band centre $61.6M where it was $60M.
• Pegasus XL (rc-052): $40M (2017), unescalated, becomes $54M at CPI-U
  x1.3484, $121,076/kg. The row is retired, so nothing searching operational
  vehicles reads it.
• Deep Space Network time (rc-030, operational_costs.csv): the row
  carried a superseded FY09 MOCS rate ($1,057) forward to $1,530/hr. JPL's DSN
  Services Catalog 820-100 Rev H (Jun 2022) gives the hourly rate base as
  $1,792; at CPI-U to Aug 2026 that is $2,082/hr for one 34-m antenna and
  ~$6,245 for a 70-m. The 1,000-4,000 band already held it and stays.

A column-by-column comparison against 0.5.3 differs in those four rows (prices,
the $/kg columns derived from them, and their notes), in 35
summary_sample.csv rows that fly Atlas V or Minotaur IV, and in
pipeline_version. Nothing else moved. The summary hash was re-recorded on the
reference platform (Windows AMD64, Python 3.13, numpy 2.2.6, pandas 2.3.3).

validate()'s flying-fleet launch band rises from $100-$100,000 to
$100-$200,000 per kg to LEO. Pegasus XL at its 2026 price, $121,076/kg, is a
real vehicle at a real price (NASA paid $127,088/kg for ICON in 2017 dollars),
and a band that fires on a true row stops being read. The concept band is
unchanged.

Not taken, and recorded as owner decisions in the registry: raising Falcon
Heavy (expendable)'s band to NASA's $178M Europa Clipper price (rc-022) and
anchoring Pegasus on NASA's ICON price (rc-078) would move a commercial list
price toward a government full-service one, which this table keeps apart
elsewhere (Atlas V's note). The lunar descent row (rc-016) is right to move and
moves every archived lunar price with it, so it waits for a release that
versions the delivery chain.