SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage

Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by seanflyon on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @04:30PM (#8071402)

If you can deliver a payload and recover and fully reuse the rocket then your costs drop by an order of magnitude. I can't imagine that the economics won't work out.

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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by timdiggerm on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @04:31PM (#8071410)

Depends on cost of refurb

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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by vajrabum on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @04:41PM (#8071450)

They're shooting for no refurb on per mission basis and potentially to fly it the next day. Apparently the first stage is about 70% of the total $60M mission cost.

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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by sitkack on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:20PM (#8072751)

I will cry tears of joy when they send that first stage up in less than 24 hrs, return it and launch again.

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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by seanflyon on Thursday July 24, 2014 @05:35PM (#8082395)

I'm willing to bet that this will happen before the end of the decade (i'm guessing 2017)

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