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Correct. They are contracted to launch a satellite. Anything more (such as doing landing experiments) are wholly secondary to that goal.
by gamegoblin 12y ago
Correct. They are contracted to launch a satellite. Anything more (such as doing landing experiments) are wholly secondary to that goal.
- legohead 12y agowell that much is obvious. what I meant was, they have already delayed 3 days, why can't they keep delaying? does it say in the contract it has to be delivered by such and such date?
- JshWright 12y agoIf they end up having to scrub today, the moon will be in the way for a while (this satellite is actually going out well past the orbit of the Moon) and the next launch window wouldn't be until the 20th. Regardless of any contractual obligations, I think it's pretty obvious that future customers would be wary of SpaceX if they were to intentionally delay a paying customer's payload for a completely optional test, unrelated to the mission that was paid for.