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The eventual goal is to land it on land, they're only doing water landings right now due to the high chance of failure. In the future, the first stage will land
by ZoFreX 12y ago
The eventual goal is to land it on land, they're only doing water landings right now due to the high chance of failure. In the future, the first stage will land back at the rocket pad, which massively reduces the logistics for re-using it.
There's a cool mock-up video of what that might look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM
- hurin 12y agoSo you're saying the real cost-savings don't kick in until you're landing it back on the pad, hence salvage from sea is only important as far as perfecting the technology?
- benihana 12y agoYep. They're doing it at sea because they're in the late alpha stage of this reusable program.
- pbreit 12y agoSorry, but I'm failing to see how sending a large barge out into the ocean constitutes "massive logistics".