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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by mayneack on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:50AM (#12405632)
Maybe they offer discounts to payloads on test flights
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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by 0xffff2 on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:04AM (#12405775)
It wasn't a test flight. The "hot fire" test is conducted on every rocket shortly before launch.
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Re:A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral by manarth on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:14PM (#12407602)
As an aside, when SpaceX do reuse a rocket for the first-time (I suppose you could describe that as a test-flight), they have apparently given SES a discount [1].

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/30/technology/spacex-rocket-reu...

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