Friday, October 26, 2018

SpaceX Gets For Another Reuse Milestone

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to reach another milestone in its development of space exploration technology, which is to push the reuse of its rockets even further. According to a SpaceX official, the company is about to relaunch one of its boosters for the third time. Although SpaceX has re-used many of its rockets in prior launches--re-using the first stage of Falcon 9 rockets 30 times--it has only done so twice with each booster. SpaceX's latest design, the Falcon 9 Block 5, is designed for nearly continuous reuse with a minimal amount of reconditioning on each rocket. It's unclear exactly which launch will attempt to re-use a Falcon 9 for the third time, but report says that the November 19th mission to send small satellites to space on the Spaceflight SSO-A mission may be the target launch.