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From the control point of view, isn't this exactly the same as F9 landing on a pad, except the pad is virtual, floating in between the chopsticks and the ground
by shellfishgene 2y ago
From the control point of view, isn't this exactly the same as F9 landing on a pad, except the pad is virtual, floating in between the chopsticks and the ground? Or course one difference is that the approach needs to be from the correct direction.
- m4rtink 2y agoI seems to remember some article mentioning the Falcon 9 using radar (+ presumably other sensors) & even having a landing site map uploaded (mainly for the return to launch site scenarios) with prioritized exclusion zones in case of a landing failure.
- schiffern 2y agoHans Koenigsmann alluded to mapping during the CRS-16 post-flight press conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVSPCPoc8hs&t=373 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVSPCPoc8hs&t=373
- jessriedel 2y agoA major difference is that F9 (landing on a wide flat pad) had a quite wide acceptable horizontal error, 10 meters or more, whereas I think this (landing between two chopsticks) needs like ~1 meter accuracy in the radial direction.