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That's 8 launches in 3 months (~13 weeks). That's about every 11 days.

They need to keep 39A clear, because crew is the critical mission to accomplish. Pushing FH to next year is unsurprising. Heck, if it was me, I'd push both FH launches until after the actual crew flight.

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  On 9/6/2018 at 5:41 PM, CatastrophicFailure said:

Interesting. Wish they'd be a little more forthcoming about this stuff, have they finally reached the point of delaying a launch due to possible recovery failure?

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I sure hope so! It would show that the economics of reuse are working out exactly as SpaceX has hoped they would, which bodes very well for the future.

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  On 9/6/2018 at 5:27 PM, tater said:

Might be recovery related.

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Pretty sure this is a picture from the Falcon Heavy test that has just resurfaced and people think it’s new

(the nosecone picture). For some reason the quoted article is different than what showed when I quoted it

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  On 9/6/2018 at 11:47 PM, Ricktoberfest said:

Pretty sure this is a picture from the Falcon Heavy test that has just resurfaced and people think it’s new

(the nosecone picture). For some reason the quoted article is different than what showed when I quoted it

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The side boosters shipped with the nosecone attached, no?

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  On 9/7/2018 at 11:06 AM, Xd the great said:

Yes, but it was reaaaaaally hard.

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The electron uses it and its an pretty cheap rocket. They make passenger planes of it, its far easier now. 
Think they have pretty good handle on the aerodynamic. 

The hard part is to first find the limits, and find out how it handle not only in the air but also to work on. 
The manned version will be another very hard one and that for using it to LEO, Mars is obviously way harder. 

 

 

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  On 9/7/2018 at 1:28 AM, tater said:

The side boosters shipped with the nosecone attached, no?

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  On 9/7/2018 at 2:28 AM, cubinator said:

Yes, I recall seeing pictures of the boosters in transport, clearly identifiable by the nose.

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  On 9/7/2018 at 1:28 AM, tater said:

The side boosters shipped with the nosecone attached, no?

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https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-nosecone/

 

this is is where I saw the article. 

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