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It depends on the goals of the launch. If they met their goal criteria, and sticking the landing wasn't one of the goals, then it's a success.
by greedo 6y ago
It depends on the goals of the launch. If they met their goal criteria, and sticking the landing wasn't one of the goals, then it's a success.
- qayxc 6y agoI'm pretty sure a successful landing was one of the goals. It just might have been a "nice to have"-kind of goal. During prototyping there's only one type of test that isn't a success: a test that fails for a previously known reason (e.g. repeating a known mistake or some external factor like earthquakes, flooding or weather) and that you learned nothing from.
- greedo 6y agoElon explicitly tweeted the mission's goals: "Goals are to test 3 engine ascent, body flaps, transition from main to header tanks & landing flip." So the SpaceX team went four for four...