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According to a reddit thread they've saltwater hardened the fairings and now they can reuse them: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bc8105/arabsat6a_elo
by pedrocr 8y ago
According to a reddit thread they've saltwater hardened the fairings and now they can reuse them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bc8105/arabsat6a_elon_musk_on_twitter_both_fairing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bc8105/arabsat6a_el...
The first reuse mission seems to be an internal one though.
- Ajedi32 8y agoThat's just speculation, I wouldn't cite it as an authoritative source.
- azernik 8y agoThe part that says they're able to reuse these ones is a tweet directly from Elon Musk; he also confirms they were recovered from in the water, not caught in the air.
- Ajedi32 8y agoThat information was already covered by the news article linked in the root comment above. The additional suggestion by a commenter in the Reddit thread that "they've saltwater hardened the fairings" is speculation.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago>The part that says they're able to reuse these ones is a tweet directly from Elon Musk; And we know that Elon Musk only ever tweets true information.