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They performed a controlled landing in the ocean (for the purposes of gathering flight data, etc). The reason they didn't land this one on a barge is because it's a Block 3 Falcon 9, SpaceX is limited in their floorspace and they want to have the entirety of their Falcon 9 [non-Heavy] fleet at the Block 5 configuration. Evidently SpaceX's believes that it's cheaper to expend a Block 3 (maybe recycling some recovered components) and build a new Block 5 in its place.

[QUOTE="Dragon029, post: 321300, member: 2770"] They performed a controlled landing in the ocean (for the purposes of gathering flight data, etc). The reason they didn't land this one on a barge is because it's a Block 3 Falcon 9, SpaceX is limited in their floorspace and they want to have the entirety of their Falcon 9 [non-Heavy] fleet at the Block 5 configuration. Evidently SpaceX's believes that it's cheaper to expend a Block 3 (maybe recycling some recovered components) and build a new Block 5 in its place. [/QUOTE]

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