SpaceX to Reuse Payload Fairing for First Time on Nov. 11 Launch:
A SpaceX launch set for Nov. 11 will mark the first Falcon 9 mission to use a payload fairing from a previous flight, the company announced Tuesday, shortly after SpaceX engineers at Cape Canaveral test-fired the mission's first stage booster, also refurbished and reused.
The Falcon 9 launch scheduled for next Monday — and previously planned for October — will loft 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, joining 60 other test craft deployed on a Falcon 9 flight in May.
The launch window opens at 9:51 a.m. EST (1451 GMT) Monday and extends for approximately 11 minutes. It will be SpaceX's first launch since Aug. 6, and the first ground-based launch from Cape Canaveral since Aug. 22.
[...] Last month, a senior SpaceX official said the Starlink flight would be the company's first mission to fly a Falcon 9 first stage booster for a fourth launch.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday November 06 2019, @07:11PM (2 children)
I haven't thought about it, but you are right about "The Lull". It's been a bit. We're far below last year's launch number.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 06 2019, @07:41PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @04:47AM
Is it just SpaceX experiencing a lull, or is that across the commercial launch market?