[AR] Re: Falcon 9 lifetime of 5 flights?
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Uwe Klein wrote:
Wonderful demonstration of engine-out fault tolerance, but it does look
like the rocket is showing some wear and tear after 5 flights...
Is the same set of refurbished hardware flown repeatedly
or
is it a flow of various parts refurbished, stored and then
assembled into a "reused" booster?
It's hard to be sure from the outside.
That said, the latter approach is unlikely to produce significant cost
savings -- certainly it didn't for the shuttle SRBs. NASA had an ulterior
motive for touting "reuse" of the SRBs even if it didn't save money, but
no such motive is evident for SpaceX. Odds are that it's pretty much the
same set of hardware flying repeatedly.
Henry
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