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I heard about how the first launch was planned to be expended near Hawaii, perhaps they'll attempt to hover before doing that. But even if they do that with th
by thinkcontext 4y ago
I heard about how the first launch was planned to be expended near Hawaii, perhaps they'll attempt to hover before doing that. But even if they do that with the first few at some point they'll have to attempt a first catch, that will be quite a nail biter. It will be interesting to know how many they are willing to expend to get confident enough they won't destroy the launchpad.
But recall earlier this year one of the droneships was damaged by a landing of a returning F9. That was after over 100 landings.
Another part of this is how many successful landings are they going to do before people are allowed to be on board. How many would you want before you would feel comfortable? 5? 20? 100?
To achieve all this tolerances for Starship are going to have to be so much tighter than Falcon.