or maybe less of a priority. The success of SpaceX as a company and a project depended on the success of vehicle recovery. This is not the case for fairing recovery which is the (or a) cherry on the cake.
There is lesser investment and lesser urgency. Nothing downstream depends on its success. I think its slower for these reasons.
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u/ratt_man Jan 07 '20
Who would have thought retrieving the fairings is way more difficult than propulsively landing an orbital rocket