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1. Is this possible for Election and not for, say, Falcon 9 due to the difference in mass? 2. Is that a retro burn in the animation or reentry heating? 3. Are
by mLuby 7y ago
1. Is this possible for Election and not for, say, Falcon 9 due to the difference in mass?
2. Is that a retro burn in the animation or reentry heating?
3. Are they gonna catch those discarded battery packs too? Should be easier than a whole first stage.
4. If they nail this, catching everything by helicopter shouldn't be that much harder.
- phire 7y agoI suspect they will modify the design to not drop battery packs anymore.
- DuskStar 7y agoI suspect the battery packs cost basically nothing in comparison to the rest of the stage. (I'm also not sure that the batteries are even reusable - if there's ever a time to sacrifice rechargeability for performance, it's here)
- Taniwha 7y ago(and I'm pretty sure it's the upper stage batteries that they drop)
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- Taniwha 7y ago1. yes - they don't have the mass for the fuel to get back 2. reentry heating 3. probably not (I think it's the 2nd stage that drops its batteries) 4. because they don't have the mass to do the return they don't have a lot of options