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No, a crasher stage can do a flip and burn after separation, allowing the crasher stage to put itself back in orbit. And empty stage with only itself as a paylo
by Robotbeat 8y ago
No, a crasher stage can do a flip and burn after separation, allowing the crasher stage to put itself back in orbit. And empty stage with only itself as a payload requires just a tiny amount of fuel to do this.
...and this would all be easier to reuse than the descent stage here.
- chipsa 8y agoI think part of the reason why crasher stages aren't in any program of record is that you have to consider abort scenarios where the staging fails.