SpaceX customers should not expect deep discounts when they opt to launch satellites on previously flown boosters instead of new ones, at least not initially, said Hans Koenigs-mann, vice president of build and flight reliability for Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX. Although SpaceX intends to decrease launch costs over time, it will not immediately offer significant discounts on preflown boosters while it recovers its investment in the technology it is developing to make rockets reusable, including its "navy" of drone ships and telemetry boats, Koenigsmann said Feb. 6 at the Small Satellite Symposium in Mountain View. California.
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