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The new space company is over twenty years old. For such a long development time I figured they actually had a reasonable chance of nailing the booster landing
by lupusreal 2y ago
The new space company is over twenty years old. For such a long development time I figured they actually had a reasonable chance of nailing the booster landing. I bet they'll do it next time.
- trothamel 2y agoIt also helps that they fairly routinely land boosters (with New Shepard), which means they've likely worked out the 'landing' part. Now to see if they can solve the reentry problem.
- bpodgursky 2y agoSounded like maybe a telemetry loss, which is hard to fully simulate. They'll abort to be conservative in these situations even if the rocket could land itself without tele-operation.
- mulmen 2y agoStage 1 is remotely operated? I find that surprising.
- nirav72 2y agoI’m not knowledgeable in the deep technical details of rocketry. But curious - how else would the first stage be operated? Should it be autonomous?
- 0xffff2 2y agoYes. The timings involved would make it impractical to land a rocket reliably via human teleoperation even with zero latency.
- mulmen 2y agoI’m not a rocket scientist but my assumption is that it would be internally guided and only take external inputs in the form of GPS and “land on the ship” or “don’t land on the ship”. Saturn V was manned and had a an internal guidance computer.
- bpodgursky 2y agoNo, but they want to be able to remotely abort.
- ajax177 2y agoOnly in the last couple years has blue had a similar headcount https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6851212663821860864/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6851212...