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It's the same steps but it is harder, the center booster was going faster than any other core that has been recovered. The recovery itself was ~300 miles furthe
by ravedave5 8y ago
It's the same steps but it is harder, the center booster was going faster than any other core that has been recovered. The recovery itself was ~300 miles further out than any other recovery.
Swinging a bat at a 10mph ball is the same technology as swinging at a 90mph one. I don't think anyone would say that they were equally as easy.
- gnode 8y agoMy point is that it's less a question of technical difficulty / tolerance, but more fuel / delta-v / mass cost. In the case of a bat swing, to bat the ball faster, your muscles need to be stronger, and the ball and bat need to withstand greater pressures. In the case of a vehicle travelling through space / thin atmosphere, it only needs more fuel to burn to slow it down. Analogously, you don't parallel park a car from 70mph, having travelled somewhere on a highway. Here's a graph a booster's speed over time, showing the reentry burn: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xFYIh.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/xFYIh.png ( from https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20246/what-is-this-debris-on-the-crs-10-reentry-at-t630 https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20246/what-is-this... )