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Reusing Falcon 9 Boosters Can Cut Cost of SpaceX Launches by 30%

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Reusing Falcon 9 Boosters Can Cut Cost of SpaceX Launches by 30%

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© REUTERS / Mike Brown A long exposure photograph shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 lifting off (L) from its launch pad and then returning to a landing zone (R) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on the launcher's first mission since a June failure, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 21, 2015

A long exposure photograph shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 lifting off (L) from its launch pad and then returning to a landing zone (R) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on the launcher's first mission since a June failure, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 21, 2015 - Sputnik International

If the SpaceX aerospace manufacturer manages to reuse its Falcon 9 rockets, it could decrease the cost of space launches by 30 percent, the President and Chief operating officer of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, said.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – SpaceX launches would cost $43 million instead of the current $61 million if the US manufacturer makes progress in rocket reusability, Shotwell said as cited by Popular Science on Friday.

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In December 2015, SpaceX succeeded in making its Falcon 9 first-stage rocket land upright about 6 miles from where it was launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rest of the company’s attempts to have rocket boosters land on a drone ship have failed.

SpaceX plans to try to land a Falcon 9 rocket booster on a drone ship again on April 8. The company also hopes to reuse a Falcon 9 booster later in 2016, according to Popular Science.

Tests completed after the successful drone ship landing in December 2015, indicated that the booster could possibly fly again.