With the successful launch of Sirius XM’s new radio satellite on December 13, SpaceX has crushed its commercial Falcon 9 reuse record, while at the same time introducing reasonable reuse in customer service.
The Falcon 9 Booster P1051 carried the SXM-7 spacecraft, which weighed approximately 7 metric tons (4,15,400 lb) on the lift, marking the seventh successful launch and landing of the rocket, and for the first time SpaceX used four aircraft, five aircraft, or Starling Six aircraft boosters on non-mission.
Customer Preference The Maxer and Sirius XM highlights the major secondary advantage of SpaceX’s internal Starling satellite star launches, 14 of which the company completed in 2020 alone. With such a large number of 100% domestic launches, SpaceX was able to quickly push the envelope of the Falcon 9 reusable, boosters flying in the sixth and seventh missions for the first time. In 2020, despite the introduction of four new boosters, the wealth of Starling opportunities is that the average booster supporting SpaceX’s 25 missiles (thus) has so far completed 3.5 aircraft.
Thanks to the number of internal publishing opportunities available to SpaceX, the company was able to demonstrate in detail the reliability of the new scale Falcon 9 reuse. In other words, while Sirius XM and Maxer were the first commercial customers to fly the Period on the seventh launch pad of the Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX had already successfully launched several Falcon 9 boosters for the fifth and sixth time and just a few weeks before the business launch.
As SXM-7 marked the first commercial Falcon fairing half reuse of SpaceX, SXM-7 is the company’s 14th fair half reuse, but it is also very true of SXM-7 fair reuse. At the moment, SpaceX is undoubtedly the only company on Earth that does any amount of operational orbit-class aircraft testing. With such comprehensive full-confidence flight test data, convincing business customers of the reliability of aircraft-proven hardware is a dramatically easier task.
That forecast allows SpaceX to confidently offer or negotiate a discount. nTh flight booster or justification. It costs about $ 2.5 million to replace SpaceX, only a reasonable half to be reused, the company will probably offer a discount of 000 500,000- $ 1,000,000 + to Cyrus XM and Maxer, and aircraft data on hand to prove a reasonable half reuse is at risk of work failure or satellite contamination at sea Risk cannot be added.
As the first customer to be introduced on the six-aircraft Falcon 9 booster, Sirius XM still received a $ 5-10 million discount. SpaceX – which is believed to have an internal Starling launch pad cost of 15M or less, excluding satellite production – is almost certainly profitable despite offering the world’s lowest launch cost by a large margin for many tons of geostationary satellite
Meanwhile, thanks to the seventh successful landing of the B1051, SpaceX features two seven-plane Falcon boosters that can be used to push the envelopes further into eight, nine, ten and even more launches in 2021.
