Поэтому и центральный бустер разбили.

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Вторая ступень на Фалконах начинает работать после отсоединения первой, соответственно и посадка первой не зависит от циклограммы работы второй, сколь бы причудлива эта циклограмма не была.

This required the second stage to enter orbit with a healthy amount of propellant still inside its tanks – a requirement that therefore drives the need to launch the mission on the Falcon Heavy instead of a regular Falcon 9 because the Falcon Heavy can provide the extra margin to the second stage whereas the regular Falcon 9 – even in its expendable configuration – could not.

Even with the Falcon Heavy’s performance, the center booster – given final mission and performance margin calculations and needs – had to burn so much of its fuel during first stage flight that it was incapable of performing a Boostback burn and therefore free-flew itself 1,200 km downrange from the launch pad before reigniting its engines for the Entry and Landing Burns.

This was to mark the farthest-ever downrange landing of a SpaceX rocket, with Of Course I Still Love You positioned ~1,245 km east of the launch pad. However, the booster – not unsurprisingly – missed the drone ship.

Boeing завершил испытания парашютной системы космического корабля Starliner

https://vpk.name/news/296042_boeing_zav ... liner.html

Беспилотный полет корабля Boeing CST-100 Starliner к МКС планируется на август 2019, первый экипаж должен полететь в конце года. Ракета-носитель - Atlas-V в модификации N22.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-and-b ... target-new

ULA запросто может подать в суд за нарушение антидемпингового законодательства

NASA said that it selected SpaceX to launch the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission on a Falcon 9 in April 2021 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. NASA said the total cost to the agency for the launch is $50.3 million, which includes the launch itself and other “mission-related” costs.