cjameshuff t1_jbtuy8w wrote on March 11, 2023 at 5:50 PM

Reply to comment by TheEarthquakeGuy in Space Force allocates three historic Cape Canaveral launch pads to four companies by Azurebluenomad

> and SpaceX move any impending RTLS flights to ships.

RTLS missions only exist in the first place because it's cheaper and faster, and avoids contention for the ASDS ships, which are unavailable for significant periods of time as they transport cores back and move out to support the next landing. Moving an RTLS landing to an ASDS has a substantial cost and schedule impact, and isn't something SpaceX is going to want to do regularly.

TheEarthquakeGuy t1_jbug6z9 wrote on March 11, 2023 at 8:21 PM

Absolutely, but the cadence of these launchers is going to be limited and should be around the time that SpaceX is switching to Starship so it should be ok