what percent chance could the slip mean theyre going to reuse the orbcomm stage for ses?
On the other hand, our ASDS spies indicate that the barge was taken out of Port Canaveral for a shake down cruise yesterday, with plans for another trip today. So that might indicate that SpaceX are in fact gearing up for a near-term launch attempt. *Might*.
SpaceNews with the same situation. No one knows, not even SES - and SpaceX isn't talking about it.http://spacenews.com/delays-in-spacex-falcon-9-upgrade-schedule-raises-concerns/
That was my first thought a couple of days ago. Did they find something that they didn't like.
Quote from: kevinof on 02/01/2016 04:05 pmThat was my first thought a couple of days ago. Did they find something that they didn't like. If they DID find a serious issue in the returned 1st stage, that would be quite interesting. RTLS would have justified itself, even without reuse.
The January 30 photos of Falcon 9 stages on test stands at McGregor shows that SpaceX may be putting hardware into pre-flight qualification testing. - Ed Kyle
I would not be surprised if Elon tweets something about it.
i was wondering if maybe some of the data from last launch's second stage mimiced some things from the second stage failure that they thought they had fixed.
They may have had time to look at the struts (just an example, could be anything critical especially if on both stages) under a microscope. They may have found cracks where they expected none.If it does have something to do with stuff they found on the returned first stage (doubtful), it will have proven the value of recovery.But I suspect Jim is right.