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by Klathmon 3062 days ago
Well that test was unrelated. They only reason they tried that with an ocean landing was because they wanted the barge for the FH demo flight.

This should have been a 1-3-1 style landing burn where it lights up one engine, then 2 more to slow it down, then drops down to just 1 again at the end. In this case it sounds like the the outer 2 engines didn't start up right, so it came in way too hot.

They also have said that the center core of FH is basically a new design from the ground up, so it makes sense that they had some problems on it's first landing.