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I wonder what will happen when they get to 99% reliability? They clean up and rebuild the Mechazilla every once a hundred catches, on that occasion that one fai
by credit_guy 2y ago
I wonder what will happen when they get to 99% reliability? They clean up and rebuild the Mechazilla every once a hundred catches, on that occasion that one fails?
- bombcar 2y agoI suspect there's already a whole "refurbishment" process for the crane even for non-reusable launches, and once it's working darn reliably, they can just have a bunch of them ready to go, and cycle once in a while.
- creer 2y agoThe next one is already mostly built and very different from this one. They move fast.
- bufo 2y agoThe plan is to have many, many Mechazillas.
- brianwawok 2y agoI also expect if something fails a test in the way down you crash in the water rather than splat your catcher
- dotnet00 2y agoThe booster aims towards the shore until the landing burn starts, only then does it swing towards the tower. So, for the most part, failures should mean that the booster safely crashes into the water.
- slashdave 2y agoThat, and redundancy. The amount of cash you save allows you to do that.
- ls612 2y agoThey've landed over 300 Falcon boosters and haven't wrecked their barges yet I expect that this won't be a major issue.