[AR] Re: Falcon 9 lifetime of 5 flights?

  • From: Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 19:09:31 -0700

On 4/5/2020 8:52 AM, John Stoffel wrote:

I would think that maybe insurance costs would go down for launches on
proven hardware, and might even go down more now that F9 has shown it
can handle an engine failure and still complete the mission.

Interesting thought: Might the useful lifetime of an F9R booster end up being set by the number of flights at which the insurors start raising rates again?

Henry


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