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It looked to me like the cargo bay door didn’t latch securely back in place, either.

Still, SpaceX always seems willing to add a few stretch goals to every launch. Starlinks are cheap enough that they could stick a few in the rack just in case everything works out.

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I hope so, but if they launch on the suborbital trajectory again because they aren’t certain about the Raptor relight for a deorbit burn, then I’m guessing a Starlink won’t be able to deploy and raise its orbit in time to not also reenter.

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Yeah, they’d need to be doing an orbital test for it to be worth the bother.

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