> Someone who's already been delayed twice. Yeah, due to weather and technical problems. Obviously there's no way of getting around those. It would be a much b

> Someone who's already been delayed twice. Yeah, due to weather and technical problems. Obviously there's no way of getting around those. It would be a much bigger deal to the customer to delay just because "SpaceX wants to". > how could delaying one more day be worth more (ie cost to SpaceX) than the value of the recovered rocket times the probability of recovery. And the correct answer is ... it would be a delay of over a week, not just another day No, even if they had a launch window tomorrow, they would not have delayed another day. The correct answer is that the price of delaying just to conduct an optional test is decreased confidence from potential launch customers that their payloads will not be delayed due to SpaceX's whims, customers who already question SpaceX's ability to launch on time. When someone pays you tens of millions of dollars, you don't get to delay their flight just because you want to test something experimental - it doesn't work that way. SpaceX will have many more opportunities to test their landing procedures, it's not worth pissing off a customer just to be more aggressive on the recovery timeline.