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Originally Posted by DaFace
Iridium is up tomorrow evening. This will be a previously-flown booster, but sadly they appear to be ready to start moving out some of their old cores in storage, so they aren't landing this one.
This is by choice - they could easily do it within the mission parameters - but the scuttlebutt has it that they're wanting to get rid of most of their "block 3" cores to make room for the block 5 cores which will, theoretically, be able to fly 10+ times.
Still sad to see a perfectly good booster destroyed.  |
Wait, your launch description in the OP says they are landing on the droneship. Did they recently decide against that?
He needs a booster graveyard. But I suppose it's cheaper to just let it fall into the sea.