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by rtkwe 2547 days ago
Maybe, it'd be a fairly narrow window where they could consciously do that so most of the time we've just seen failed landings hit the pad but maybe this one was far enough out of bounds it could trigger behavior we haven't seen. They do intentionally come in off target which means an completely uncontrolled landing won't just crater into the ship. It's a pretty sturdy ship though and what we did see could have been it running out of the nitrogen for the cold gas thrusters that provide a lot of control close to landing.