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SpaceX's Used Rocket Getting a Second Paid Gig

Rejected submission by -- OriginalOwner_ http://tinyurl.com/OriginalOwner at 2016-08-31 03:44:07
Hardware

from the already-broken-in dept.

El Reg reports [theregister.co.uk]

European satellite operator SES will trust its latest hardware to a SpaceX Falcon rocket that has already made it into space once.

The refurbished rocket first flew in April [theregister.co.uk], delivering nearly 7,000lb (3,175kg) of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station and then landing on the floating sea barge Of course I still love you.

The Falcon will go up again in the final quarter of this year carrying an SES bird, we're told.


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