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Multiple sea landings, but I guess you'd argue those don't count since the vehicles tip over in water and explode. Moving barges in the sea should qualify thou
by Seanambers 2y ago
Multiple sea landings, but I guess you'd argue those don't count since the vehicles tip over in water and explode.
Moving barges in the sea should qualify though.
- hildolfr 2y agoA moving barge with a known flat surface of a known hardness and stability is a whole different category of difficult than doing the same thing on naturally occurring terrain with unknown voids, hardness, roughness and consistency.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoIs a landing barge not "purposefully engineered to be flat"?
- TylerE 2y agoThey also have the atmosphere, with drag that will make all velocities trend towards zero. Don’t have that on the moon, gotta do it all with fuel. More than half of the energy she’s by the returning falcon is aerobraking. Yes, the moon has substantially less gravity but it’s also exponentially harder to get the fuel there.
- chrisweekly 2y ago"the atmosphere, with drag that will make all velocities trend towards zero" Did you forget about gravity? Terminal velocity in free-fall is not zero!
- TylerE 2y agoTrend towards. The rocket is descending far faster than low altitude terminal velocity.
- ohgr 2y agoSo what you're saying is we need to blast some barges into space and land them on the moon so we have a flat surface for starship to land on?