From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Thus spake Alain Fournier:   
   > Does anyone know why it take two days before SpaceX can make another launch   
   > attempt after having filled the tanks? Just pumping the fuel out of the tank   
   > shouldn't be much longer than pumping it in, a few hours should do. I don't   
   > think it is much surprising that there would be something that delays the   
   > operations. I just don't know what it is.   
   >   
   >   
   > Alain Fournier   
      
   Topping off the tank farm is part of the delay.  The boiloff and other   
   losses during tanking and detanking mean that what they recover is less   
   than what they pumped in.  And at this point, the tank farm is filled   
   by tanker trucks.   
      
   There is probably a lot more inspection going on with these prototypes   
   than there would be with production rockets.   
      
   /dps   
      
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