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Falcon 9 is already somewhat sensitive to launch weather conditions, given that it is very long and thin (pencil-like). Scrubs because of inclement weather are
by inglor_cz 3y ago
Falcon 9 is already somewhat sensitive to launch weather conditions, given that it is very long and thin (pencil-like). Scrubs because of inclement weather are not unusual, in contrast to, say, Russian Soyuz, which can take about everything that the Kazakh steppe can throw at it.
If you need to optimize for both the launch weather and the landing site weather, your launch windows are even more limited. At the end of the day, losing an occassional booster isn't a reputational problem; losing the payload would be.