Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by blastofpast on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:01AM
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned whether or not this failure is related to SpaceX's first time reusing a rocket. If so, hopefully this isn't too much of a setback!
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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by wrigby on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:06AM
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The reused rocket will be used to launch SES-10 later this year, not AMOS-6.
Source: http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-launch-ses-10-satellite-on-re...
Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by ygra on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:38AM
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Question is whether they will have a launch pad at that time and how long investigations will last and until a fix is deployed. May well be that there are no more launches this year.
Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by Klathmon on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:01AM
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Yeah the last time they lost something it was a 6 month freeze on launches.
Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by Dimitris on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:05AM
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This is a brand new rocket. The reused rocket will be used for the SES-10 mission.
Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by throwawayReply on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:03AM
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Because it would just be speculation at this point, less than hour after it's happened?
Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
by blastofpast on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:05AM
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It was just yesterday we read about SpaceX launching their first reused rocket. However, after searching for the news article, it's now clear to me that this was scheduled to happen "late this year".
source: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27935/20160901/space...