SpaceX Falcon 9 historic landing thread (1st landing attempt & most recent missions)

[Tyeeking]

So - do you go by the amount the wrecked one originally cost, or the cost of the replacement, or possibly the loss of revenue from the crashed booster? Lotza ways to play with numbers.

I would love to see the depreciation schedule on something like this. Both GAAP and what the IRS allows.

 

[Marc_G]

A rare hot abort of a Falcon-9 mission. Vehicle and satellite payload ok, trying again tonight.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...e-canaveral-florida-friday-night/77086068007/

 

[BEC]

A rare hot abort of a Falcon-9 mission. Vehicle and satellite payload ok, trying again tonight.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/...e-canaveral-florida-friday-night/77086068007/

Not tonight. Another Starlink from Pad 39A tonight. The one that hot aborted is rescheduled for 12/29.

 

[BEC]

Four hundredth Falcon booster landing earlier today!

 

[techrat]

Four hundredth Falcon booster landing earlier today!

And we treat that as normal now.

I keep looking at Vulcan Centaur and SLS and other 100% "throw away" rockets, and I think 'what kind of crappy old technology is this?' Even RocketLab now recovers their booster and they are getting close to having a Neutron launch (which is why I believe their stock zoomed so much in the last 2 months). I'd like to see DreamChaser take to the skies before spring. And these inflatable space stations look exciting, but it still seems like everything is another 3 years away at least. Sigh.

 

[BEC]

RocketLab has recovered a couple, but they have not been routinely recovering Electron first stages. Actually, I've been kind of wondering what's up with that.

 

[boatgeek]

RocketLab has recovered a couple, but they have not been routinely recovering Electron first stages. Actually, I've been kind of wondering what's up with that.

I think I remember that they found that the effort to catch and refurbish wasn't that much less on that rocket than the effort to build a new booster. It was also more disruptive to their general production schedule. This should be given roughly the confidence that I indicated, unless you can confirm with another source.