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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.

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1. "martyb" - https://soylentnews.org/~martyb/
2. "SpaceX to Reuse Payload Fairing for First Time on Nov. 11 Launch" - https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/11/05/spacex-to-reuse-payload-fairing-for-first-time-on-nov-11-launch/
3. "since Aug. 6," - https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/07/spacex-launches-israeli-owned-telecom-satellite/
4. "Aug. 22." - https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/22/five-more-delta-4-heavy-flights-in-ula-backlog-after-final-single-stick-launch/
5. "a senior SpaceX official said" - https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/10/11/spacexs-next-launch-to-mark-another-incremental-step-in-rocket-reusability/
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=37304

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