optymizm spacex odnośnie startów:
Remarks from SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell indicate the company is making good progress at ramping up the launch rate: SpaceX says boosting output, on track for 13 rocket launches this year - Reuters
Expect to make 13 launches in 2015
"This year, the company expects to produce at least 180 engines, with that number set to increase to 240 next year, and 400 in 2017"
"making 'great progress' on its 27-engine Falcon Heavy rocket, and planned to test it later this year at a refurbished space shuttle launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida."
Expects certification for military launches by June.
druga pozytywna wiadomość , że nowy zapragedowany F9 nie będzie potrzebować dodatkowej certyfikacji:
Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX, spoke at the Satellite 2015 conference in Washington DC today and said the upgraded Falcon 9, which includes using the full capability of the Merlin engines and densified (i.e. colder) propellants, won't require re-certification by NASA and the USAF: SpaceX Says Falcon 9 Upgrade Won't Require New Certification - SpaceNews.com -
Shotwell said about half of the certification issues being worked by the two U.S. government agencies relate to the company’s specific practices in building its rockets, and not to any specific rocket design. Because of that, she said, the more-powerful Falcon 9 is unlikely to force a renewed certification process.
“It is an iterative process [with the agencies],” Shotwell said. “It will become quicker and quicker to certify” new versions of the vehicle.
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