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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satel... by ChuckMcM on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:14PM (#18303136)
That is a pretty big advantage if you save all of that fuel on the satellite. It translates directly into extra years on station and so longer payoff period.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satel... by greglindahl on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:23PM (#18304699)
Sure, if you have already built the satellite, and it shares fuel between orbit raising and station keeping, it can be a big win. ULA convinced the US to do that with GOES-16, recently.

But if you're designing from scratch, building a bigger satellite and staging earlier gets more mass to GEO. That's called a "subsync" orbit and SpaceX has talked 2 customers into doing that with 3 satellites so far: Telstar 19V, Telstar 18V, and Hispasat 30W-6.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/launches/gto_performanc...

In these latter 3 examples, the customer saved ~ $30mm on the launch by staying within the reusable F9 mass limit.

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