PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Heads-up - uncontrolled reentry of large rocket booster projected May 8-10
Old 6th May 2021, 06:29
  #9 (permalink)  
wiggy
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: The Winchester
Posts: 6,555
Received 5 Likes on 5 Posts
Nick 1

Random re-entries have been going on since 1957 but most final stages of boosters are small enough for them/their components to not generally survive re-entry.

Problem here is this a seriously big piece of hardware and custom and practice is entry should have been controlled and targeted for a remote area.

https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-lo...tation-launch/
wiggy is offline