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SpaceX to Reuse Payload Fairing for First Time on Nov. 11 Launch

Accepted submission by martyb at 2019-11-05 23:57:56
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SpaceX to Reuse Payload Fairing for First Time on Nov. 11 Launch [spaceflightnow.com]:

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, [spaceflightnow.com] and the first ground-based launch from Cape Canaveral since Aug. 22. [spaceflightnow.com]

[...]Last month, a senior SpaceX official said [spaceflightnow.com] the Starlink flight would be the company’s first mission to fly a Falcon 9 first stage booster for a fourth launch.


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