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General Reuse
* Several reflights scheduled for later this year. Might fly as many as 6 reflights this year. FH two side boosters are being reflown. That will be interesting mission on FH... hopefully in good direction. This core will have historic value. Seeing if Cape might like to have it as something to remember the moment. Present it as gift to cape
* Stage 1 reps 75% of cost of flight. Reusing cost reduction potential is over a factor of 100.
Musk on price discount: Trying to figure that out. It will be a meaningful reduction. Will first have to payoff price of reusability development. Will be less than current price of our rockets and far lower than any other rocket in the world.
* Musk on stage reuse limits: Design intent is that rocket can be reflown with ZERO hybrid changes 10 times. Then with moderate refurb, 100 times. We can make it 1,000, but there's no point in that. ITS will be 1,000 reflights.
* NASA has been supportive. Commercial, SES has been most supportive. Next thing is how to achieve rapid reuse without major hardware changeouts. Aspirations of zero hardware changes and 24hrs reflight.
* Maybe 12 reflights next year.
* Q
o you have customers signed up for reused rocket flights? Where is FH?
A:Yes. Excluded FH, there are three or four more this year signed up on contingency basis. Think we'll see more customers in future. FH sounded easy; actually no, crazy hard. Required redesign of center core. Done with testing. Cores are in final prep. Finished in 2-3 months. Late summer launch.
Refurb facility at cape. Most refurb done at launch site. It's like a forest of rocket boosters. If most of our 20 remaining flights this year land, we're gonna need a big hanger.
SES-10
* AOS of sat. Just were we want to be. Everything was perfect. To be part of historic new day for spaceflight is tremendous.
* Fairing and future second stage recovery
* Payload fairing LANDED SUCCESSFULLY. Fairing has thruster systems and steerable parachute. Was just shown pic of intact fairing floating in ocean.
* Upper stage reuse is next.
ITS/BFR/Mars
* This is critical part of Mars plan. Goal of Mars plan is not a single mission but to establish a self-sustaining city on Mars.
* Hope to provide update to ITS/BFR soon. Come up with number of design refinements. Update on ITS on website in next month or so. First ITS will be uncrewed.
Roomba/ASDS Robot
* The robot on barge... in order to secure rocket remotely, we can't put people on barge when rocket's sliding around. Droids are to remotely secure legs of rocket even in high seas.
We have one landing in stormy seas where only thing the kept rocket from falling overboard as it slid around barge was lip on barge.
FH and Other
*New design coming for Grid Fin. Will be largest titanium forging in the world. Current Grid Fin is aluminum and gets so hot it lights on fire... which isn't good for reuse.
* Need to get 40 up and running to do single stick flights there and FH from 39A. FH is a high risk flight. 27 engines lighting simultaneous. Technically is should be called Falcon 27. But that sounds too scary. For block 5 nomenclature, we're using wrong terminology. It's more like version 2.5 of F9. Block 5 most important part is op engines at highest thurust cap, 10% more than what they currently run at
* Several reflights scheduled for later this year. Might fly as many as 6 reflights this year. FH two side boosters are being reflown. That will be interesting mission on FH... hopefully in good direction. This core will have historic value. Seeing if Cape might like to have it as something to remember the moment. Present it as gift to cape
* Stage 1 reps 75% of cost of flight. Reusing cost reduction potential is over a factor of 100.
Musk on price discount: Trying to figure that out. It will be a meaningful reduction. Will first have to payoff price of reusability development. Will be less than current price of our rockets and far lower than any other rocket in the world.
* Musk on stage reuse limits: Design intent is that rocket can be reflown with ZERO hybrid changes 10 times. Then with moderate refurb, 100 times. We can make it 1,000, but there's no point in that. ITS will be 1,000 reflights.
* NASA has been supportive. Commercial, SES has been most supportive. Next thing is how to achieve rapid reuse without major hardware changeouts. Aspirations of zero hardware changes and 24hrs reflight.
* Maybe 12 reflights next year.
* Q
o you have customers signed up for reused rocket flights? Where is FH?A:Yes. Excluded FH, there are three or four more this year signed up on contingency basis. Think we'll see more customers in future. FH sounded easy; actually no, crazy hard. Required redesign of center core. Done with testing. Cores are in final prep. Finished in 2-3 months. Late summer launch.
Refurb facility at cape. Most refurb done at launch site. It's like a forest of rocket boosters. If most of our 20 remaining flights this year land, we're gonna need a big hanger.
SES-10
* AOS of sat. Just were we want to be. Everything was perfect. To be part of historic new day for spaceflight is tremendous.
* Fairing and future second stage recovery
* Payload fairing LANDED SUCCESSFULLY. Fairing has thruster systems and steerable parachute. Was just shown pic of intact fairing floating in ocean.
* Upper stage reuse is next.
ITS/BFR/Mars
* This is critical part of Mars plan. Goal of Mars plan is not a single mission but to establish a self-sustaining city on Mars.
* Hope to provide update to ITS/BFR soon. Come up with number of design refinements. Update on ITS on website in next month or so. First ITS will be uncrewed.
Roomba/ASDS Robot
* The robot on barge... in order to secure rocket remotely, we can't put people on barge when rocket's sliding around. Droids are to remotely secure legs of rocket even in high seas.
We have one landing in stormy seas where only thing the kept rocket from falling overboard as it slid around barge was lip on barge.
FH and Other
*New design coming for Grid Fin. Will be largest titanium forging in the world. Current Grid Fin is aluminum and gets so hot it lights on fire... which isn't good for reuse.
* Need to get 40 up and running to do single stick flights there and FH from 39A. FH is a high risk flight. 27 engines lighting simultaneous. Technically is should be called Falcon 27. But that sounds too scary. For block 5 nomenclature, we're using wrong terminology. It's more like version 2.5 of F9. Block 5 most important part is op engines at highest thurust cap, 10% more than what they currently run at
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