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0 pointsmayneack9y ago0 comments

Maybe they offer discounts to payloads on test flights

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0xffff29y ago· 1 in thread

It wasn't a test flight. The "hot fire" test is conducted on every rocket shortly before launch.

As an aside, when SpaceX do reuse a rocket for the first-time (I suppose you could describe that as a test-flight), they have apparently given SES a discount [1].

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/30/technology/spacex-rocket-reu...

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