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Voting closed: 01/19/2016 05:45 pm
I think that had they not had the launch failure last year, that they would've beat my 9 estimate handily, even with any potential delays related to introducing the F9v1.2 that may have been masked by the RTF.
Quote from: jongoff on 12/22/2015 06:22 pmI think that had they not had the launch failure last year, that they would've beat my 9 estimate handily, even with any potential delays related to introducing the F9v1.2 that may have been masked by the RTF.Is this really what happened? Would SpaceX have encountered a similar gap without the CRS-7 failure?At no point was there any indication that something was wrong with the 1st stage. So as far as we know they could have continues production of at least 1st stages while the investigation was going on. This means that they might have a whole bunch of stages in storage somewhere just waiting to get launched.I guessed 13 but the real number might be more than that.
somewhere in my twitter feed last night I think I saw someone quote Elon Musk saying in the post landing press telecon that they aim to have 12 launches in 2016. Anybody else catch this? While there may be less, doesn't that kinda put a cap on the most launches in 2016 at 12?
even with any potential delays related to introducing the F9v1.2 that may have been masked by the RTF.
Why would there be a delay? I didn't see a significant delay in the transition between V1.0 and V1.1.
Quote from: Paul451 on 12/23/2015 04:23 amWhy would there be a delay? I didn't see a significant delay in the transition between V1.0 and V1.1.The last V1.0 flew on March 1st, 2013; the first V1.1 flew on September 29th, 2013. That's almost seven months.