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My thoughts too, but I guess any ingress of sea water makes it necessary to junk the engines. Also, once you've solved the 'landing problem' once, presumably th
by mb_72 12y ago
My thoughts too, but I guess any ingress of sea water makes it necessary to junk the engines. Also, once you've solved the 'landing problem' once, presumably the method can be reused on each and every subsequent landing; if you are looking at many such landings it becomes worth doing it 'once' and properly.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> if you are looking at many such landings it becomes worth doing it 'once' and properly. Yup; the point is, SpaceX is not trying to just recover the first stage, they're trying to solve the vertical-landing of rockets for rapid reusability - which is vital not only for cost reduction, but for their plans to go to Mars. Because if they solve landing here, they can use the very same technique to land on Moon, Mars and other planets.