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It compared video footage to “sci fI”.
by nativeit 3y ago
It compared video footage to “sci fI”.
- e4e5 3y agoHave you seen said video footage? Autonomous rocket landing on an autonomous ship. It was pretty incredible
- nativeit 3y ago…and that’s more impressive than OSIRIS because…
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoFor one, it’s a significantly more difficult engineering challenge. Two, it’s unprecedented. OSIRIS was cinematically more dramatic, but we’ve been hitting moving things with moving things for a while. We haven’t done a mechalox reusable massive spaceship before to the point that it’s basically its own category.
- nativeit 3y agoMaybe it’s just me, but I don’t find landing a rocket to be terribly impressive. Especially when it’s literally the least critical feature. We can do successful missions without the still very questionable reusable aspects of this extremely late and extremely questionable system.
- nativeit 3y agoI kind of feel like the footage of OSIRIS sucker punching an asteroid was significantly more impressive. Not the least because that was capturing a critical moment of successful mission. The sycophantic writing of this article was over the top.