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It highlights the fact that it IS used, they are confident that it will fly, and they plan to do it again. Often, quickly, and cheaply. 

Such that they don't even bother cleaning it. 

You know when you go check out a  used car and it's been so well cleaned that it's suspicious? I think it's kind of like that.

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4 hours ago, Lukaszenko said:

It highlights the fact that it IS used, they are confident that it will fly, and they plan to do it again. Often, quickly, and cheaply. 

Such that they don't even bother cleaning it. 

You know when you go check out a  used car and it's been so well cleaned that it's suspicious? I think it's kind of like that.

Hah, as for highlights, it will have street cred when its been tagged by at least 2 rival gangs.

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6 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Dangit, yarnt, & dagnabbit! Has everyone forgotten what happened last time there were too many 13’s in a single launch?? :mad:

S'OK - pretty sure that they don't need to stir the tanks for this one.

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1 hour ago, KSK said:

S'OK - pretty sure that they don't need to stir the tanks for this one.

 

8 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Dangit, yarnt, & dagnabbit! Has everyone forgotten what happened last time there were too many 13’s in a single launch?? :mad:

At least it's not a friday :D

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10 hours ago, cubinator said:

What sort of soot is on the used boosters, and what is needed to clean it off? Why can't they just rinse it off every few flights with, I don't know, a million gallons of soapy water?

No need to clean it off. We're talking about maybe 2-3 kg of soot on the whole first stage. If this was the upper stage, it would mean a 2-3 kilogram reduction in payload, which wouldn't be a problem for Falcon 9. But on the lower stage, we're talking about maybe a dozen grams of payload reduction, thanks to the rocket equation.

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8 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Dangit, yarnt, & dagnabbit! Has everyone forgotten what happened last time there were too many 13’s in a single launch?? :mad:

13 is only unlucky if you use imperial units of measurement.

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1 minute ago, PB666 said:

Not an expert on these things, but 24 hours before launch isnt that big white part suppossed to be sticking strait up in the air? :o

I have no idea when the image was taken. It was upright yesterday. The delay has to do with the new pad, they are running though everything multiple times, it seems. Perhaps they took her horizontal, then will go vertical again as part of dealing with last minute checks to the new, improved SLC-40.

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