Comments on: SpaceX loses 89 smallsats due to delays https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-loses-89-smallsats-due-to-delays/ Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-loses-89-smallsats-due-to-delays/#comment-970152 Sat, 04 Mar 2017 22:22:47 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44477#comment-970152 D. Messier,

Is the delay due to lack of available launchers, delays in satellite construction, or both?

]]> By: D. Messier https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-loses-89-smallsats-due-to-delays/#comment-970121 Sat, 04 Mar 2017 19:08:30 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=44477#comment-970121 The more interesting element of this are the delays in the primary Formosat-5 satellite.

Contract signed: 2010
Planned launch vehicle: Falcon 1e
Actual launch vehicle: Falcon 9
Planned launch date: late 2013 — early 2014
Actual launch date: late 2017 — early 2018

So, about 7.5 years from contract signing to launch providing current schedule holds. Launch will be about four years behind schedule.

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