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by dredmorbius
2020 days ago
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Very few rocket launches end with any kind of soft landing, let alone main boosters. Soft-landing a small payload, or in the case of the shuttle, a winged reentry vehicle, is the exception. (And yes, the Shuttle also soft-ish watered its SRBs underr chutes.) Retrorocket-soft-landing intact boosters from production launches fully upright was science fiction until four years ago. https://geekologie.com/2016/04/unreal-video-of-spacexs-first... The test platform was first hopped in 2012, only 8 years ago. https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE (I'm not a Musk fanboi,I thought the powered landing was nuts, he proved me wrong.) |
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