Comments on: After successfully completing its standard prelaunch static fire, SpaceX has delayed the Sunday Falcon 9 commercial launch at the request of its customer which wishes to do further tests of the six satellites on board. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/after-successfully-completing-its-standard-prelaunch-static-fire-spacex-has-delayed-the-sunday-falcon-9-commercial-launch-at-the-request-of-its-customer-which-wishes-to-do-further-tests-of-the-six-sa/ Sun, 15 Jun 2014 22:48:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: geoffc https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/after-successfully-completing-its-standard-prelaunch-static-fire-spacex-has-delayed-the-sunday-falcon-9-commercial-launch-at-the-request-of-its-customer-which-wishes-to-do-further-tests-of-the-six-sa/#comment-171163 Sun, 15 Jun 2014 22:48:29 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28874#comment-171163 SpaceX only has room for one core at the Florida (LC-40) site, and apparently only room for one payload in the clean room. Question is, will they expand for Falcon Heavy at LC40? Or just launch it from LC-39A?

They need to increase their facilities there. With LC-39A they will have a second site, but still needs to be room for more than one booster and payload at each site.

]]> By: mivenho https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/after-successfully-completing-its-standard-prelaunch-static-fire-spacex-has-delayed-the-sunday-falcon-9-commercial-launch-at-the-request-of-its-customer-which-wishes-to-do-further-tests-of-the-six-sa/#comment-171151 Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:07:21 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=28874#comment-171151 I hope SpaceX is charging the customer for all of this down time.

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