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It would make a lot of sense to turn over the booster as a potential live targeting run, but I'd think naval aviation assets would be better suited, and it woul
by sailfast 9y ago
It would make a lot of sense to turn over the booster as a potential live targeting run, but I'd think naval aviation assets would be better suited, and it would be better training.
Most any reserve unit out of Jacksonville or Pensacola could handle it no sweat, I'd think.
Free target drone, good will with a primary customer, and a risk avoided? What's not to like?
- toomanybeersies 9y agoMy wild guess is that SpaceX has a lot more contact with the USAF (launching from Vandenberg AFB etc), so it would've been faster and easier to just the USAF.
- dtparr 9y agoNot just Vandy, the Eastern Range is run by the AF's 45th Space Wing, and SLC-40 is on Cape Canveral Air Force Station, an AFB.
- ericcumbee 9y agoJax and Pensacola are both Navy... more likely it would be Tyndall AFB, or Homestead
- JshWright 9y agoThat was the parent comment's point. It might have more sense from an operational perspective to have naval aviation assets take it out.