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2019-08-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Ruag finally agrees to sell giant fairings to SpaceX?
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[TESLARATI] SpaceX may have signed an agreement with ULA supplier RUAG for bigger Falcon fairings.
| SpaceX has been trying for many years to buy these but faced the 8 ball. |
According to comments made to a member of the space industry by a RUAG spokesperson, the prominent aerospace supplier may have finally reached an agreement with SpaceX to manufacture a handful of larger payload fairings for future Falcon 9 and Heavy launches.
In the likely event that SpaceX is one of two contractors awarded a portion of several dozen US military launch contracts next year, the company will need to be able to cater to niche requirements, including accommodating unusually tall military satellites. Those satellites can be so tall that SpaceX’s own payload fairing – generally middle-of-the-pack relative to competitors’ offerings – may be too short, meaning that SpaceX will have to find ways around that minor shortcoming.
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Posted by 3dc 2019-08-14 10:05||
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