How SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2018
- We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!
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I live in NC but came to Vero Beach FL, to work awhile. My boss bought me tickets to watch SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch at Kennedy Space Center. It was Awesome. I got to meet some of the Engineers and see the Rocket before it launched.
Awesome! I was watching from Playalinda Beach just 3 miles away! Were you on top of the VAB?
+Dylan Thompson There were different prices based on what time you arrived and what you had access to. They ranged from $120 to $250 but mine were a gift. It did include a shirt, a minuture replica, and some other swag. On a normal day you can tour the Space Center for cheaper, meet an astronaut, and see Spaceships that went to the moon. I highly recommend if you are interested. Another launch is coming up fairly soon.
Playalinda Beach was just 10$ so poor college kids like me can watch launches at just 3 miles away, great views too!
Where is transmitter unit how he received data from car ? you see from front view. where is side and back camera some tell me ? I believe launch is true but .spacex send something ..haha?
I think your boss is trying to plow you from behind.
I am going to be forever amused that there is a convertible in space. Like, I WANT to be annoyed, because I'm super annoyed by that disco ball, but those images of Starman driving a Tesla through space are so whimsical, I can't be.
What if the convertible is a spy sat? Conspiracy in 3,2,1....
Well, NOW you've done it. Great. Now the conspiracy theorists are gonna show up and it's gonna start off kind of amusingly about aliens and lizard people and then the HAARP and Flat Earthers are going to drop by and the next thing you know, it's all on fire while people scream about pizza parlors.
Thanks.
Imagine some aliens come to our solar system in a couple of centuries, after humanity has destroyed itself, and finding that Tesla orbiting the sun...
Friend: "Elon, you need to help me hide this body! Somewhere no one will ever find it!"
Elon: "Let's shove the body in a space suit, stick the space suit in a Tesla and then launch the Tesla into heliocentric orbit!"
Friend: "What?"
Elon: "Hold my beer"
Just talking about the Falcon Heavy gave me goosebumps, because I was close enough to be able to see a speck in the sky from where I was (NE Florida).
The side boosters won’t be reused. They are of older design. The titanium grid fins were the most important items to recover on the other hand.
+1 for being accurate. I have seen SO much inaccuracy around this... THANK YOU.
Semikami So many geniuses in the comment section repeating this over and over again. Does it make you feel smart that you listened to one press conference?
Surely a grid fin is easier to make than a big rocket booster...? That seems wasteful.
It's not really as big of a deal that the core didn't land properly as people think. The purpose of this test flight was to gain valuable information about the Falcon Heavy and it did that better than anyone really expected I believe. Also I'd like to point out that SpaceX wasn't going to be using any of the boosters on future missions again anyway since they're all block 4 and not block 5 which is the newest booster and thus not what they want to use for customer missions.
As far as I heard the third burn that set the final course for Starman went well. Also Starman won't actually be going to Mars or to Mars' orbit. It will be orbiting the Sun with an elliptical orbit that passes through both Earth's and Mars' orbits but won't actually interact with either planet.
Starman's aphelion actually far exceeded Mars' orbit. Here's a picture of its actual orbit: twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438 The first block 5 mission will probably be in April: Iridium-6 (51-55) / GRACE-FO 1-2 2018 will be a great year for spacex. We just had the first falcon heavy launch, we're soon gonna get more and we'll get block 5 which will bring rapid reusability. Then we'll also get an uncrewed crew dragon launch probably in august and crewed probably in december and next year we might be seeing some bfr spaceship tests! It's gonna be exciting!
- " next year we might be seeing some bfr spaceship tests"
That seems really optimistic.
Mmmmm I can't wait to see a BFR flight test. So excited for the future of this company now. The FH launch was just so beautiful to me. And yeah to the op, the failure of the center core is commonly understood to be a minor disappointment, and not a failure. But I do know there are people claiming the opposite. The important people know what a success this was.
One of the side boosters is actually Block 3 iirc
Officially, SpaceX is going to retire those side boosters. They are of an old design, and they want to phase it out.
Yup, I think that shows just how little research they actually do.
The Marshmallow Man, I hope you're being sarcastic.
icwiz Does that mean that landing them again was useless? Or can they reuse some of the parts?
I agree with him, they were too lazy to watch the after launch press conference where Elon told they are not using those boosters a second time.
Tvegal yeah they will reuse the titanium grid fins. Those are very expensive and hard to make, so Elon is glad those boosters landed. Furthermore, the landing itself proved that the system works, and they collected a lot of valuable data, which is really important for future success... And that synchronous landing was again great positive publicity for SpaceX. So no, they didn't land for nothing.
what if elon musk just performed the perfect murder and there is a dead person in that tesla? :P
The falcon heavy launch being successful made me so, so happy. The second age of human space flight beyond LEO is here, and I can’t wait.
Man, the B.F.R. launch will be a sight to see. We might be colonizing places that aren't even on the fricken planet! I can't even fathom it. It's mind boggling in the sense of there's a bloody Tesla fricken Roadster in space now. But orders of magnitude greater.
JJ Barajas the BFR will be a deafening _Freak show_ of a launch.....I'm almost afraid of what 1 huge, monstrously powerfull engine, rather than 27 small ones, will look like......
I'm picturing a massive bottle rocket, for some reason. Lol
They are not going to re-use those boosters.
The titanium grid fins on them, however, were what Elon Musk said were the most important things to recover!
UnTiedMusicStudio and they dont re use them bcos its not a block 5 version of the rocket! They are block 4 and 3 if i remember correctly
Kevin Piip yes
Correct. Elon said that in the press conference.
Elon Musk: Hey, you know what we should do?
Spacex: What?
Elon Musk: Put my car into space!
Spacex: Elon, no....
Elon Musk: Elon, yes.....
Why not? The first Dragon carried a wheel of cheese.
For first test flights of new tech, Elon wants something more interesting than a concrete mass simulator, yet something utterly useless (in that context).
Better than a block of concrete or steel, you have to agree.
Actual meeting minutes transcript.
XD
elon said that its for making people excited about space travel
Wait, they actually launched a Tesla into orbit? I thought that was just the animation for entertainment purposes. I'm actually amazed.
I didn't think much of it until I saw all the news reports of the rocket launch and (eventually) all the reports that said that Musk launched a car into outer space.
ua-cam.com/video/y3niFzo5VLI/v-deo.html
it's live now
Its not, Its just a re-stream
The fastest car out there
Elon himself commented that you can know that it's real just because the picture quality is so terrible (as a consequence of being taken in outer space)
SpaceX won’t reuse the boosters as they are older versions, but they will reuse specific parts such as the titanium grid fins as these are expensive.
Just to note, those boosters were also already reused just for this mission! Only the center core was new; the two side boosters were previously used and landed.
Loui Coleman Why are all of you so obsessed with this? He said they could reuse them they wanted to.
He's specifically said they won't be reused, none of the potentially recovered rockets would be because they're not Block 5 first stages. Falcon Heavy was launched with obsolete tech. They'll scavenge the good bits but the next Falcon Heavy will be all Block 5 Falcon 9 units, with the centre stage a special falcon heavy type falcon 9. The side boosters will probably be reused gear, I would say, since they're successfully catching so many of them these days.
SpaceX is also not even trying to recover most of their older first stages (Block 3) at the moment because they are running out of space to put them all and want to switch over to using only Block 4 and 5 designs because they are much quicker to refurbish and more durable.
The boosters are version 3 falcon 9s which means they won’t be used again. From now on, SpaceX will be using version 5 falcon 9s.
Falcon heavy may be used for moon missions, but it won’t be used for mars missions. That title will go to the BFR, which will be the largest rocket ever made. It will be able to transport around 80 passengers per flight.
Gravitational lensing doesn't actually bend the light itself, but rather It bends the fabric of space in which the light travels in. It's like changing the riverbank so the water in it follows that new path. Rather quite cool :) Go science!
I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between the two.
Christian O. Holz dude, I’m pretty sure scishow knows that general relativity exists. Saying that the gravity bends the light is like saying that it bends the **path** of the light
J.J. Shank actually, it is a very important distinction to make.
Especially if you follow the ideas pertaining to multiple dimensions.
NNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!!!!!!!!!!!
It is gravity bends trajectory of light same way it bends trajectory of any other flying by object
I just love how eerily similar Falcon Heavy's design is to what you'd do in Kerbal Space Program. Not enough power? moar boosters!
you forgot the explode part.
Sadly, they stopped pursuing fuel ducts, so they couldn't achieve true asparagus staging.
If you want to HEAR the Falcon Heavy launch (it is AWESOME) look up Smarter Every Day.. might be under suggested... its just THAT badass.
supervegito2277
That was so sick...
Ugh, yes, headphones recommended!
With a good enough bass at full volume you might still get some of the experience... mine unfortunately RATTLES at these levels lol so i used my g633 instead.
WHOOOOOYAAAAAHHHH best nerd day ever!!!!!
Falcon Heavy is definitely one of this century's most profound achievements. And there is more to come. Go humans!
Elon Musk used Heavy Falcon Punch on Space!
It was super effective!!!
It was hands down the best Livestream I've seen in my life
I love all the different view points from all the live feed cameras
I couldn't get the opening sequence of Heavy Metal (1981) out of my head.
They aren't planning to use either booster as they are a combination of block 3 and 4, they only plan to reuse block 5 boosters
Hank you sound almost disappointed that it didn't blow up!
You tend to learn more from failures than you do successes. The number of things that had to go right to make this mission successful is insane, but it also means that potential problems were not found. It is bitter sweet for engineers when things fail. While it does show they got it wrong, It educates them in new and powerful ways. Failure, in its own way, is a success. That is why people keep telling others that the only failure is in not trying.
Ha, that's so sick. Planets in another galaxy. I never thought i'd be alive to see the day.
Finally! I was waiting for this episode to mention the exoplanets discovery since that news came out before Space X lunch.
Soon, we will have enough lifting power to put the Congress on the moon. Perhaps, we might send a second rocket with air and food and stuff..... if the budget allows for it.
man i was so hyped wen i watched this live!!!
How could anyone NOT be. That was beautiful to see. I hope all the people laughing at Musk watched it too.
I was out at the cape for the launch, we were more worried about the weather... the launch time was pushed back several times to the very end of the window because of wind shear. Was fun to watch it lift off though.
Musk stated that the first stage boosters were a mix of block 3 and 4 Falcon rockets and that they wouldn't be launched again since all future launches will utilize Falcon rockets in the block 5 design.
Middle was block 3, outer were block 4.
that makes a lot of sense that the block 3 didn't land. considering it lacks upgrades of the current block 4 and the future block 5. I believe all of drone ship landings or at least nearly all were block 4s correct?
DrIBeast
I dont know, as far as i know there were plenty of block 3 barge landings, i just know the center was block 3 due to it having the old gridfins on.
DrIBeast
The center core tried to land, but it ran out of fuel and failed to relight 2 of the 3 engines required and crashed at 300mph on impact.
I am so impressed when I see the two rockets landing.
Wish Hank hosted all the time.
wishing youluck I like Caitlin. But Reid is also acceptable.
RIP Center Core. You made the ultimate sacrifice.
Love these! You guys are the best
Great episode! Enjoyed it!
Spacex have said they will not be reusing the recovered first stage boosters. Infact, these boosters were recovered in 2016 and used again this week for the test flight. Also, the BFR will be used to get to mars, not FH
They already announced they wouldn't reuse these boosters, they are revision 4, they will...however, reuse the new grid fins! They are made from titanium and had to be made special because of the different air flow of the side boosters vs the nose cone boosters. They basically have to bite more actual air rather than stuff deflected on the nose cone, and that air is super hot due to compression heating.
they could still reuse other parts from the boosters for there raw materials.
Right, I specifically called out using the grid fins. But pretty much everything else is a right off. Still impressive, but the payoffs reusability wise will be on future revision 5 booster stages.
Elon and SpaceX like to keep trophies, so I get the feeling those boosters are going to be put on display somewhere.
Wow, these news were exciting!
This is fantastic news! Well done!
2:35 "Star Wars Music Starts Playing"
Also its a long time ago since light has to travel 4 billion light years
"A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away."
Starman :) Nice nod to David Bowie
I believe space interest is taking off again or will be soon and it’s god dang exciting!!! Just like back in the 60’s! Think of all the people glued to every single black and white screen they could get to, to watch the moon landing. I wanna see something like that in my life!!
Thanks for uploading with the feeds corrected for the boosters before landing. It seems like everyone recorded the live stream and didn't go back and get the corrected footage from spacex's channel.
They won't reuse the boosters, they are falcon 9 version 2.5 and 3.5. They only use falcon 9 version 5.
Chadyo the Wallnut
It was just to prove the concept I think...
I love this timeline.
I was waiting for this video
*VERY INTERESTING*
This is cool af.
Sci Show Space is like Internet Explorer when it comes to reporting space news 😂 this happened back on Tuesday
Well, they aren't exactly a news source. XD
mad to think that there could be another civilisation out there making the same discovery, seeing our tiny earth as just a fluctuation in light but having no idea it would be their most historical discovery ever
they werent planning on reusing any of that heavy version anyway
Well they will probably reuse the gridfins.
There’s a Starman cruising in the sky...
The side boosters, which were salvaged, won't actually fly again. They are old models of the falcon that are being retired. The new block 5 is the falcon booster which they are intending for rapid reusability.
Not only that, but the titanium grid fins are the only part worth getting back, apparently. And the center core had aluminum grid fins.
what is they aren't rogue planets, but a horde of alien spacecraft coming toward us
Well then we'd better hope they're friendly, because although it's impressive, Elon's Interplanetary Tesla is no match for 20,000 Death Stars...
...But seriously, our sun would die *long* before any of them arrived anyway. Just saying, we've got more immediate concerns.
hahah too true, I'm just high :)
Oink oink🐷🐽🐖
The launch was best seen from your front yard 12 miles away. :)
Hey does anyone know if the side boosters are actually going to be used, like I can't find it ANYWHERE in the comments, not one place!? /s
Liam Walker, this was actually the second time the side boosters were used, and won't be used again says Elon
no they're not being reused again
These boosters in the test flight were block 3/4 (version 3/4), and they want to transition to block 5, or the latest version that they believe will be the final version.
Apparently people don’t understand sarcasm.
Thermophile ikr I even put the sarcasm tag and they still didn’t get it lmao
"A satellite for Saudi Arabia". Fantastic.
Will Lastnameguy how will the use it to spread terrorism I wonder.
I'm sure they paid for it.
Mars 2024!!!
Insert launch history of the Soviet N1 as an example of the difficulty in getting multiple engines working together.
they wont reuse the boosters ^^ its the older version they wont reuse it ^^ but still u can sell the material xD
SciShow Space please do a video on this new telescope technology unistellar!
those booster that landed perfectly are an old model, they won't be reused
It just makes it easier to put them on display at the Kennedy center museum when they land next door. I'd call that a great "reuse" for them. Heck take all of the stages that are not going to be reused and make a freaking procession way to the entrance of the Kennedy visitor center.
Go driving through Huntsville Alabama on interstate 565 past the US Space and Rocket complex. Those things are pretty cool to leave laying around.
Even better...close the Kennedy visitor center and area completely, build a landing pad and land a rocket inside the center as the display model. How crazy would that be?...."Here's the documentation of the crazy job involved with our display of the actual retired space shuttle Atlantis. It was strapped to a plane, streets were closed, power lines were taken down...etc...and here's the Falcon 9... it landed here... all by itself..."
Those boosters wont be reused, according to Elon.
I'll punch the person that says this is fake
Gregorius Valentin punch me on the right or left first Jesus told me to turn my cheek.
Even your buddy elon laighs about how fake it looks haha
Tales of Wonder Jesus saves so they just animated the whole thing?
Dude we are being sarcastic
lord reet the overlord I hope so
And the first human steps on Mars will get the Tesla Roadster as a gift. :D
Blue Origins have a dummy called Mannequin Skywalker.
(Although they can only just reach space, so far.)
The two recovered cores (the booster cores), will not be reused. They were block/version 3 (or maybe 4) cores and SpaceX is only reuseding the block 5 cores. They will be reusing the grid fins though. :-)
1:00 they said they arent reusing any of these parts they just wanted to test their capabilities
Just to add on, the cores used in this test we're Block 3 and 4. All future launches are going to be Block 5 boosters only.
According to Elon, the only reason it was important to get the side boosters back is because they were equipped with titanium grid fins, which are both expensive and time prohibitive to manufacture. So while the boosters themselves won't be reused, the grid fins will be stripped off for use in future side cores.
It would have been really cool if all three cores were recovered, but none of them will be reused.
Well now the tv series "life after people" needs a major update doesn't it! If alien archaeologists find earth in a million years, after humans are long gone, what traces of human existence will remain - a dam car orbiting the sun!!!!!! Oh what will they make of our civilisation lol
Re: extra-galactic planets - must have been a slow news day, eh?
2000 planets per star? Come on guys, that was a temporary lapse of consciousness!
I would love to know how they got the side boosters to return to the launch pad in such an impressive way.....
*The Falcon 9 has 9 rockets and X by 3 Falcon 9 Boosters*
*Should it be called the Falcon 27* ?
But, falcon heavy sounds cooler
I have a name yeah I know 😁
Heavy sounds way more better
Elon Musk has the right attitude.
Go big or go home.
The things SpaceX are doing are just incredible. It's already beginning to seem absurd that through most of our spaceflight history we'd just dump these huge machines into the ocean after using them. Landing rockets just seems so natural at this point, even if some still don't make it.
not even landing, hell even in KSP i put chutes on all my boosters cause they are so expensive
not really. There are some massive technical problems to solve, not the least of which is relighting said engines, and as we found out, not as easy as you make it out to be after the center booster crashed into the drone ship at 300MPH after multiple engines failed to reignite. Just look at what kind of effort was taken to recover the SRBs from the Space Shuttle.
Then you have to account for saving fuel for landing...... this lowers total payload to orbit, to compensate you need more fuel, and to compensate for extra fuel you'll need more fuel. Tyranny of rockets comes to mind.
Then lets not forget what those things are being subjected to. Incredible vibrations and g-forces. This can cause metal fatigue and even failure of the launch vehicle. Should there be a problem in ANYTHING the entire thing can go up in seconds, as we found out in the case of some previous launches. In order to engineer for multiple launches you have to make it stronger, and then you need to refurbish. This costs money, then what happens when said rocket blows up? In the case of Challenger that was $1.7 BILLION. ouch. In the case of NASA this reuseablity cost taxpayers $6.67B/year on average, with 135 flights. Thats averaging 4.5 flights per year over its lifetime, with each launch costing a whopping $1.45B per launch. Musk launched the FH for what? $90M? chump change compared to the STS. I'd say that Musk could afford to loose all three parts of the first stage at that cost.
The Space Shuttle had minimal reusage of the boosters and of course the Space Shuttle itself was also reused, but earlier manned programs did not have reusability of any components and the rockets that are used by NASA that are for probes, most of them don't have anything to be reused, which I as well can't find reason for! All the space agencies should have long ago figured out a way to reuse components as much as possible so that it wouldn't be as expensive for the governments to be able to continue having space programs.
The STS tossed out the giant center fuel tank on every launch, and every shuttle flew with essentially New, not refurbished engines. The turnaround costs were enormous, and as you said the SRB's were the only semi reusable component of the launch stack, but even they would be torn down and rebuilt, as opposed to just refilling the tanks like on a Falcon 9. and the Shuttle was deadly. 14 Astronauts and two vehicles in 130 some flights is terrible!
+Phil Rabe
Yeah, that big orange tank was never reused again! But, like I said all space agencies need to find ways to reuse some of their rocket components to be able to be cheaper to operate so that the science they could provide can be cheaper overall for all.
Are you telling me that an actual car is in space right now?
And heading towards the asteroid belt, centuries from now belt miners are gonna be very confused.
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thanks gents, the solar-exploring age is within our gasp but we know that we might not live long enough to see it. It is a sickening truth that I can't accept no matter how many sheep I count myself to sleep.
Given the distance, that's old light passing those planets - which means the whole arrangement is from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
I wish I could have seen it.
Probably the only tune on the radio was "A Space Oddity".
Imagine the insurance on that car... or the satnav
Does leaving your geyser on save more electricity than switching it on when needed. Due to the energy requirements to raise the water temperature being smaller for a smaller Delta T? Provided it only switches on the heating element when the temperature drops below the ideal heated temperature?
Next time I expect them to send a teapot into orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
Elon Musk through SpaceX has managed to reignite an interest in today's youth for space exploration in a way that NASA has failed to do for decades. It's called PR and it is fanning the flames of interest in this field. This is something the field of space exploration has been needing desperately and Elon's vision through SpaceX is achieving is pushing this field back to the forefront of interests.
ya but he doesn't have to really play politics in the way NASA has to. Everything NASA says and does, effects how much it gets and what it's allowed to do. SpaceX has a lot more freedom to say and do as it pleases. Which honestly is sad since NASA has accomplished so much and inspired so many, but is held back now adays for so many reaons.
Hah, if NASA got proper funding they'd have gone to Mars ages ago, too bad they're slaves of the most regressive government on Earth.
NASA is held back by congress. Congress gives NASA so many guidelines, that they are basically designing the rockets
I mean not the MOST regressive... just the most powerful regressive government on earth.
I have a name - And rockets designed by politicians should scare the 5h!t out of anyone... especially astronauts. ;-P
Early squad were ya at!
Can't wait for the SLS launch next year.
I mean, Block 1 is only marginally more powerful than FH, but it still will be interesting to see what it turns into
I appreciate all Rockets, but I think NASA should stick with space probes. The SLS will cost about 500 million per launch, and cost god knows how much to develop. The FH and BFR will probably do the same jobs for far less money.
No one believes that 500 million pricetag from 2012 anymore. ULA charges 400 mil for Delta IV Heavy. SLS will be much more expensive.
Can you guys go over the history of test launch payloads? There seems to be some of people confused why they use a joke payload on the rockets first launch.
Normal test payloads are just a chunk of concrete. The first flight is always experimental, so you don't want to lose an expensive payload.
But SpaceX has been different. Elon Musk wants something interesting, and this was certainly interesting. Also. On the first flight of their dragon capsule, they sent a wheel of cheese.
The precision with which astronomers gather information never ceases to amaze me. "Inferred the existence of planets billions of light years away".. ayfkm?!?! How?
Through the cumulative life's work of hundreds of thousands of people over decades.
David Bhart yes. You're right
They said boosters were never planned to be reused. Boosters used in heavy were previous models (version 3 and 4). Only model 5 falcon 9 will be reused.
block 5 noob
trckojr you're right, they aren't reusing these AGAIN however, both side boosters have flwon to space before this flight. One for Thaicom and another was a CRS mission to the ISS. The can reuse these block 3's and 4's about 5-10 times but the block 5 can be reused thousands of times and reused cheaper and faster. So they are getting rid of all their remaining block 3's and 4's so that they can make room for the Block 5's
@DrlBeast Excuse my language, of course I meant block 5. I must've mixed it up with Tesla, so I wrote model.
@Ken Kirtland I didn't know that. I just repeated what they said on the broadcast. Yeah, I know block 5 are supposed to be made from much more durable and heat resistant material, which will make it able to be used many, many times.. I can't wait for BFR to became reality. I wish more people were like Elon.
Hey, my university did something of note! Sweet.
Wesley Forbes
When I think of Oklahoma I instantly think of tornadoes xd.
TheLenny27 That’s understandable, Oklahoma gets a lot of those and OU has an amazing meteorological school.
So what happened to the center first stage that was supposed to land on the drone platform?
You say it "didn't go so well"...what does that mean? Did it explode? Did it miss the drone? Did it land but then fall over?
Not all the engines re ignited. It hit the water around 300 mph.
ouch
...and about 300ft away from the drone ship.
A 9/10 is still a fail with rockets.
So Elon Musk is a fan of the old animated movie Heavy Metal. Nice
They should've named the dummy Luke Skydriver
They had a a David Bowie theme.
#GloryToThePioneers
Looks like Elon took a few pointers from Grease by sending a car flying into the sky!
Lemme guess that roadster has a flamethrower in it.
ayyyyyyyyy
He has no plans to reuse these rockets, only those titanium "fins"...
Regarding Exoplanets: EVE Represent!
They aren't reusing the side boosters, Elon said it in the press conference after the launch.