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by pipsterwo 216 days ago
Did anyone else notice the pyrotechnics in the landing feet after touchdown? I'm going to assume that they harpooned the deck surface to secure the booster.

Im pretty impressed at how simple that idea is compared to SpaceX's solution which is to have a robot drive underneath and grab the booster

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Welding isn’t great for reuse. SpaceX experimented with it early on.
Interesting, did see a couple of small pops after landing on the drone ship, was that them?