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Re:SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video] by InclinedPlane on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @02:34AM (#10776384)
For this launch, Orbcomm paid a pittance. They paid Falcon 1 prices for a Falcon 9 launch.
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Re:SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video] by mikeash on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:06AM (#10778452)
Not quite. These satellites were indeed originally supposed to go up on a Falcon 1, but not 11 at a time. They got a pretty big discount, but not quite a pittance.
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