[AR] Re: SpaceX F9 Launch/Update -- Live Link
- From: Stephen Van Sickle <sjv2006@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:14:05 -0800
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 7:34 AM, James Bowery <jabowery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think it quite possible if not probable that Blue Origin will be the
first to launch a commercial satellite to _orbit_ on a reused first stage
and do so economically.
How do you figure that? Blue Origin isn't close to orbiting anything at
all at this point, whereas SpaceX does so routinely. Having now recovered
intact a first stage from an orbital launch, SpaceX could give it a try on
their very next launch, if it were a high enough priority for them to do so
out of their own pocket with a dummy payload. More likely they will take a
conservative approach and test the hell out of several recovered stages
until a paying customer comes along willing to use a recovered stage. But
even that could be less than a year.
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