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When are people gonna start talking about the elephant in the room? There is no publicly available data that points to reusable rockets being safe for human return.
When are people gonna start talking about the elephant in the room? There is no publicly available data that points to reusable rockets being safe for human return.
When are people gonna start talking about the elephant in the room? There is no publicly available data that points to reusable rockets being safe for human return.
Not sure if you're being serious or not, but the Shuttle was reusable (or at least, the part that carried the crew was).
When are people gonna start talking about the elephant in the room? There is no publicly available data that points to reusable rockets being safe for human return.
Nobody is trying to land humans on the reusable part of the rocket, this is the first stage returning under power. There is no elephant in the room, there is no room and no elephant either, so a lack of data is the expectation, not something worth mentioning.
I’m sure these tough landings will help SpaceX.
I believe they do a little horizontal kick just before landing when they validate things are look good. Potentially something wasn’t right and it just crashed into the ocean like 100 yards from the drone ship.. the good thing is that spaceX seems to learn from all of these issues and compensates, so will be interesting to here what happened.
This was the fourth mission for this first stage booster, which is the most any core has launched yet, is that right?
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This is accurate. More good examples of this passive-safety landing procedure in action were in the Heavy demo flight and the CRS-16 mission. The Heavy demo center core failed to relight two of the three engines needed for landing, and plunged right into the water off the side of the landing barge ( https://youtu.be/A0FZIwabctw?t=72 ). CRS-16's booster had a hydraulic failure of the grid fins but still had engine and…
If I remember correctly this procedure was implemented after SES-9, which came in too hot and broke straight through the deck of the droneship.
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I remember everyone in my office stopped working for about 30 minutes to watch that dual rocket landing and being completely blown away.
I wonder how it is when you're on site, it's hard to appreciate the scale on video