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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.
by Denvercoder9 7y ago
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.
- greglindahl 7y agoI'm pretty sure it pre-dates the first landing, it's an important safety feature when aiming the booster at land.
- clutchingstraws 7y agoI didn't know that. Thanks for the detail. Better to lose a booster than both lose a booster and cripple a droneship. On that topic, I've always been impressed at how tough those droneships are. They've taken a lot of punishment but they've never lost one at sea yet. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall of the first meeting between reps from SpaceX and McDonough Marine. "So, you folks make big rockets. I'm guessing you're going to need these barges to transport them around to avoid roads. And there's likely some insurance implications here." "In that order: yes, technically yes, and definitely yes."