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Please all keep in mind that the primary mission is a success and that landing the booster is an optimization , not a failure if it does not work. A failure is when the primary mission fails, everything else is a success.
Please all keep in mind that the primary mission is a success and that landing the booster is an optimization , not a failure if it does not work. A failure is when the primary mission fails, everything else is a success.
Trying to recover the first stage significantly reduces available payload.
well it would become noteworthy that their failures make news simply because they had taken the concept of recovering the first stage to the point of people just assuming it was how rocket launches are meant to be. I remember the first video of one successfully landing after launching and being wowed but when two landed together then it truly felt like science fiction had become reality
Please all keep in mind that the primary mission is a success and that landing the booster is an optimization , not a failure if it does not work. A failure is when the primary mission fails, everything else is a success.
This was the fourth mission for this first stage booster, which is the most any core has launched yet, is that right?
Please all keep in mind that the primary mission is a success and that landing the booster is an optimization , not a failure if it does not work. A failure is when the primary mission fails, everything else is a success.
Also worth keeping in mind: Every other launch system out there "Fails" to recover their first stage on every single launch. SpaceX "Failing" here is reverting to norm.
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I wonder how it is when you're on site, it's hard to appreciate the scale on video
It's hard to appreciate the scale in person too, it doesn't look real (I was there). Like the other poster said, it's surreal. But the sonic booms help remind you the boosters are large and moving very fast.
Please all keep in mind that the primary mission is a success and that landing the booster is an optimization , not a failure if it does not work. A failure is when the primary mission fails, everything else is a success.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm giving the number of successful landing after the first successful drone-ship landing, which doesn't include the first successful pad landing. (This seemed a more fair way to count because drone-ship landing are harder; if you start counting after the first successful pad landing you include two failed drone ship landing which should be considered still total experiments.)
Dammit. I read that 3 times before commenting and still missed that point of emphasis. Touché