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Not much different from early work on Falcon 9 landings -- the Grasshopper test rig and F9R-dev-1 prototype both did a bunch of land-to-land hops (the last bein
by rst 6y ago
Not much different from early work on Falcon 9 landings -- the Grasshopper test rig and F9R-dev-1 prototype both did a bunch of land-to-land hops (the last being the crash that destroyed F9R-dev-1 after an engine failure) before they transitioned to attempted water landings from orbital flights
- oska 6y ago> (the last being the crash that destroyed F9R-dev-1 after an engine failure) From memory I think it blew itself up in the air when something went wrong, rather than crashing.