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by krisoft
653 days ago
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> you want it to follow a certain flight path It followed the promised flight path all the way to the drone ship and then tipped over. I would understand the consternation if it left the keep out zone and landed in an entirely different area of the sea. But it sounds like that was not the case. > even if it is inconsequential to the rest of the mission, well... Could you finish your sentence please? The job of the FAA is to keep everyone safe. There is no indication that something unsafe happened here. What happened here is the reason why the recovery people are standing-by outside a declared safe zone and not chilling on the drone ship. (In other words this is the reason why the droneship is a drone ship.) |
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So if Scott Manley was right and it was a landing leg strut failure, SpaceX could quickly report that and close the investigation. A landing leg strut failure would never threaten human lives so that's all the FCC cares about.
OTOH, if it was an engine failure leading to the rocket coming in hot (like others have speculated), it's possible that the same problem at a different point in the flight path could threaten lives. But SpaceX has redundancy in basically all systems for the "going up" portion of the flight so it could just say "yup, if that had happened at a different time the redundant systems would have had to take over".
During landing the center engine is a single point of failure. Going up they have 8 other engines and can get to space on just 8.