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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight by Rebelgecko on Saturday March 09, 2019 @10:22AM (#19346530)
That's not quite how things are in practice. At the Cape and Vandenberg they need to submit a scheduling request to the range. In the past, the Air Force wouldn't allow launches within 72 hours of each other. This caused some conflicts as SpaceX (and to a lesser extent ULA and Orbital/Northrop) upped their launch cadence over the last year. In theory with the Falcon's automated FTS they can launch more frequently than that, but I don't think that has actually happened.

Leasing the pad also prevents SpaceX from making certain modifications and puts some infrastructure constraints on them

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