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SpaceX to Reuse a First Stage Booster to Launch a Commercial Satellite

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday August 31 2016, @07:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the selective-recycling dept.

takyon writes:

SES will launch a satellite using one of SpaceX's "flight-proven" rockets, or in other words, used goods:

The telecommunications giant SES is boldly going where no company has gone before by making history in inking a deal today, Aug. 30, to fly the expensive SES-10 commercial satellite on the first ever launch of a 'Flight-Proven' SpaceX booster.

Luxembourg-based SES and Hawthrone, CA-based SpaceX today jointly announced the agreement to "launch SES-10 on a flight-proven Falcon 9 orbital rocket booster" before the end of this year. "The satellite, which will be in a geostationary orbit and expand SES's capabilities across Latin America, is scheduled for launch in Q4 2016. SES-10 will be the first-ever satellite to launch on a SpaceX flight-proven rocket booster," according to a joint statement.

That first launch of a flight-proven Falcon 9 first stage will use the CRS-8 booster that delivered a SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station in April 2016. The reflight could happen as soon as October 2016.

-- OriginalOwner_ adds The Register.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2016, @12:26AM (#395953)

    SpaceX is talking about launching permanent human residents to Mars in 2024.

    You'll be lucky to have the Bell Riots [wikia.com] in 2024 and not be living in a Trump Housing Camp wondering when America was going to become great again.