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Author Topic: SpaceX gets its first customer for a re-used rocket  (Read 14343 times)

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SpaceX gets its first customer for a re-used rocket
« on: August 31, 2016, 12:54:36 pm »
Satellite operator SES has agreed to let SpaceX launch its latest satellite on a re-used rocket. Read the story here.
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Re: SpaceX gets its first customer for a re-used rocket
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2016, 09:24:21 am »
Is that the one that just blew up with the Facebook satellite?
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Re: SpaceX gets its first customer for a re-used rocket
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2016, 10:05:43 am »
No, that was a new one. And in any case it was the 2nd stage that blew, so even if the first stage was a re-used one, it would not have made any difference.
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Re: SpaceX gets its first customer for a re-used rocket
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2019, 06:04:29 pm »
I heard that they're sending up living people.