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If there's an accident (boom) then the paying customer's payload is destroyed and in most cases they will not have a duplicate payload just standing by to be la
by jblow 9y ago
If there's an accident (boom) then the paying customer's payload is destroyed and in most cases they will not have a duplicate payload just standing by to be launched. Building satellites takes a while.
- mcbits 9y agoI think the theory is that the next customer scheduled for the dead rocket can share some other rocket instead. The internal satellite(s) on that rocket get delayed, but at least it would be loaded to capacity even if the previous rocket didn't go boom.