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I heard "Stage 1 FTS has been saved" and shortly after, "Stage 2 FTS has been saved". Not sure what FTS means but hopefully its capture was a success!
by bowmessage 12y ago
I heard "Stage 1 FTS has been saved" and shortly after, "Stage 2 FTS has been saved".
Not sure what FTS means but hopefully its capture was a success!
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- ilkkao 12y agoAnd the commentator doesn't comment or speculate anything about it. Really odd.
- abstractbill 12y agoSame as last time - we didn't hear anything more about the first stage until much later.
- eck 12y agoFTS means flight termination system. Meaning the thing that blows it up if it goes off course and is going to crash into people. They were saying "safed" not "saved", meaning, no longer armed.
- bowmessage 12y agoAh, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense!
- algorithmsRcool 12y agoShe said "Stage 1 FTS has been safed". FTS is the flight termination system. I believe that is a self destruct mechanism in case things go very wrong. They arm it before liftoff and disable it after it's well over the ocean.
- InclinedPlane 12y agoSafed. Meaning switched off from being armed.