SpaceX to fly a reused first stage this week

Launch of CRS-8 from VAB roof
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 The same first stage booster that launched CRS-8 toward the ISS with BEAM will be launching SES-10, a communications satellite, up to Geostationary Orbit and land back on the droneship. The Falcon 9 will be launched from LC-39A Thursday, March 30th where the first stage will be launched into space for the second time. Gwynne Shotwell stated that it took about 4 months to refurbish the 1st stage from the CRS-8 landing. They hope to reduce that refurbish time to 2 months and eventually down to just one day. SES-10 is a satellite that will broadcast video and television series across Latin America. It weighs around 11,700lbs and will allow the first stage to have enough fuel left over to complete a landing on the droneship, Of

Course I Still Love You (OCISLY). SES announced their agreement with SpaceX in August of 2016 to launch using one of their reused boosters. They're offering customers a 10% discount

CRS-8 booster in Port Canaveral after the first successful
landing at sea.
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on the regular $62 million for using a reused booster for their launch. It will also be one of the six launches on a reused booster that SpaceX intends to launch this year. Two of those six boosters will be used as side cores on the Falcon Heavy Demo Flight sometime this year. A successful recovery of the 1st stage from the SES-10 launch will give SpaceX insight on the performance and reused of the booster.