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not as many as you would think. They don't do very many static fires of falcon 9 at all anymore. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/spacex-building-a
by ericcumbee 2y ago
not as many as you would think. They don't do very many static fires of falcon 9 at all anymore.
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/spacex-building-airline-type-flight-ops-launch https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/spacex-building...
"For example, the company changed its requirement to perform a static firing every time an engine was removed.
“Now we have to drop three engines before we go do a static fire because we determined we can put the high-pressure joints together, verify that they’re leak-tight and everything works,” Gerstenmaier says. “We’ve removed like 14 static fires out of the flow that would have been required under our old criteria, and all 14 of those flights launched on the first attempt.”"