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In the video of the fairing adapter deploying the satellites, there's some kind of white highlight or light-source in the upper-left part of the frame. What was that? Also, what happens to the mass-adapter (i.e. the balancing 12th non-satellite)?
In the video of the fairing adapter deploying the satellites, there's some kind of white highlight or light-source in the upper-left part of the frame. What was that? Also, what happens to the mass-adapter (i.e. the balancing 12th non-satellite)?
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A follow-up question to that would be - how much $$ do you save per launch by reusing the first stage?
Lots. There's really not a lot of costs that can add up for reuse of these stages. It'll require a bit of cleaning up, a few new bits and pieces replaced and added, and a lot of inspection work. But most of the cost of the stage is in manufacturing the engines and tanks, so it should add up to enormous savings, even if it's relatively costly to reuse each stage compared to the theoretical limits. Edit: the flip-side…
I bet they relaunch this booster on their own dime as a demo.
Trying to land a Rocket — the SpaceX Reusable Rocket Story https://medium.com/lazy-collections/trying-to-land-a-rocket-...
I can't wait for this to fuck over Comcast and every other last-mile monopoly acting like jerks to their customers.
What's with all the fluff videos? Can we have a channel with just a comms feed? T-4 minutes and still zero actual mission audio...
I guess now the question is whether they can do it the majority of the time.