With the successful launch of Sirius XM’s new radio satellite on December 13, SpaceX swallowed the record of commercial Falcon 9 reuse and at the same time began reuse Fair in customer missions.
Weighing in at about 7 metric tons (15,400 pounds), the SXM-7 spacecraft was carried by Falcon 9 Booster B1051 marking the seventh successful launch and landing of the rocket, and for the first time SpaceX used a four-plane, five-flight, or a Starlink mission. Flight booster
The internal Starlink satellite constellation of Maxar and Sirius XM SpaceX, citing customer wishes, exemplifies a major secondary advantage, with 14 companies completing it in 2020 alone. With 100% internal launches of this massive size, SpaceX has been able to quickly fly the Falcon 9 reuse envelope for the first time in their sixth and seventh missions. In 2020, despite the debut of four new boosters, Starlink’s advantage means that the average booster supporting each of SpaceX’s 25 launches (thus) has completed 3.5 flights so far.
With the number of internal launches available on SpaceX, the company has been able to demonstrate a new level of reliability of the Falcon 9 reuse. In other words, while Sirius XM and Maxer were the first commercial customers to fly a payload at the seventh launch of the Falcon 9 Booster, SpaceX has already successfully launched and landed several Falcon 9 Booster for the fifth and sixth time – and for the seventh time a few weeks before – the commercial debut. .
This is even more true of fairing reuse, because despite the reuse of the SXM-7 SpaceX’s first commercial Falcon fairing half, the company’s 14th fairing half of the SXM-7 as a whole was re-used. How much does the amount perform. With such extensive full fidelity test data available, confirming the effectiveness of the flight-proven hardware to commercial customers is probably a dramatically easier task.
That prior knowledge allows SpaceX to confidently offer discounts or discussions with interested customers using a no-Sterlink payload. Nth- Flight booster or fairing. For example, to reuse half of the fairings alone, costing about 2.5 2.5 million to replace the SpaceX, the company probably offered a ,000 500,000- $ 1,000,000 + discount for the Siris XM and Maxer, and has hands-on evidence to prove that flight data missions to sea or satellite pollution are commendable. Will not add risk.
To be the first customer on the six-flight Falcon 9 booster, the Sirius XM has probably received another -10 5-10 million discount. SpaceX – M 15M or less is expected to cost an internal Sterlink launch without satellite production – the world’s lowest launch cost for multi-ton geostationary satellites over large distances was probably almost profitable despite the world’s lowest price offer.
Meanwhile, thanks to the B1051’s seventh successful landing, SpaceX has two seven-flight Falcon boosters that it could use to push the envelope into eight, nine, ten and possibly more launches in 2021.
