Originally Posted by
ORAC
Musk just confirmed:
Starship booster makes soft landing in water, next landing will be caught by the tower arms.
I simply cannot wait to see that!
But I've got a feeling they've got some pretty major design isues to solve before we see another launch.
How the heck did those fins survive that amount of burning and not fail? Simply incredible.
Still, ir seems to show that stainless steel was a sound call.
Even so, if we think it's a massive achievement to soft-land the booster somewhere in the oggin it's orders of magnitude harder and more challenging to dynamically place it inch-perfect (as it must be) in the chopsticks.
Wow! What exciting times!