Great and easy to understand article, thanks for posting it.
Does anyone know it the spacex team uses the imperial or the metric system for development? Elon switches between both systems and it's messing with my head.
Fwiw, on their public webcast, they had on-screen telemetry showing km/h for speed and km for altitude (and no downrange distance). Not necessarily what they use internally, though.
Aerospace engineers traditionally uses knots, thousands of feet and nautical miles. SI units typically have km/s (not /h).
Aerospace engineers traditionally uses knots, thousands of feet and nautical miles. SI units typically have km/s (not /h).