[pestrov]

So what about the core?

[MBCook]

Is the core designed to be reusable or is that a one-time-use part?

[madamelic]

I'd assume if they are landing it, it is reusable. It'd be sort of wasteful to pack fuel for landing, if we were just going to dump the module.

[greenhouse_gas]

It can be reused, just won't be as it's an outdated model.

They still want it back for data.

[alexdumitru]

The core was supposed to land on the barge, but the video footage got disconnected and they said they don't know what happened to it yet.

[MBCook]

Oh, perhaps I have the name wrong. I meant the part connected to the payload with the Merlin engine designed for vacuum, above the three main rockets (the center of which must be the core).

[pikchurn]

That's the 2nd stage. It's still attached to the payload I believe, so that they can test mid-course corrections to the transfer orbit.

[skykooler]

It will relight its engine again in about five and a half hours to depart Earth orbit for interplanetary space.

[MBCook]

Thanks.

[gordon_freeman]

reusable of course.