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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by dnautics on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:42AM (#15971132)
It was my understanding that the F9H components cannot be recycled F9 units, despite me Musk's best efforts at engineering a solution.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by stormtv on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:58AM (#15971314)
Both the side boosters on the F9H inaugural flight will be reused boosters. The center boosters are only able to fly on F9H but are planned to be reusable.

Here are both the landing videos of the side cores that will be flying on the F9H https://youtu.be/4jEz03Z8azc https://youtu.be/DKqY8sy3nkM?t=55s

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by walshemj on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:42PM (#15971830)
are they landing all 3 first stages - that would be so cool
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by dtparr on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:52PM (#15971945)
That's the plan. The center core at sea on the ASDS, both side boosters back at the Cape.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by Zardoz84 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:08AM (#15977666)
It would be EPIC to see it
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by dnautics on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:59PM (#15984415)
Go see it!
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by jessriedel on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:59AM (#15971322)
The two side boosters on the FH demo flight are recycled from previous F9 missions. The central core is new and will be recovered. I do not think it’s possible to use the central FH core on an F9 mission, but it will be re-used for further FH missions.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket sets up at Cape Canaveral ah... by mLuby on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:32PM (#15972909)
Any idea why that is? I could imagine that its structure being incapable of handling the additional mass.
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