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This doesn't feel like that much of an accomplishment relatively speaking. It's a smallish rocket that went up and down. Very far away from landing something
by treis 1y ago
This doesn't feel like that much of an accomplishment relatively speaking. It's a smallish rocket that went up and down. Very far away from landing something 100 times heavier from orbit.
- lupusreal 1y agoNobody is propulsively landing anything from orbit yet. (Dragon is supposedly capable of it, as a backup if the chutes fail, but has never done so.)
- xixixao 1y agoStarship is already pretty much there (almost-orbit and water splash)
- lupusreal 1y agoThey've had three failures since those earlier successes, and while I expect they'll get it eventually I wouldn't count them as doing it yet. Besides SpaceX, its also being worked on by Rocket Lab, Stoke, maybe Blue Origin, and too many Chinese companies to count.
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