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Old 13th October 2024 | 13:49
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How/where are they planning to land Ship? Will it grow legs or is there some other plan?
No legs, but the first few test ships have solid blocks they can settle on for landings as per SN10*.

At some stage the ships will be fitted with landing blocks below the upper flaps and will be caught in a tower in the same way as the booster. Presumably whichever the current two towers hasn't caught the booster- pending a dedicated tower near the ship turnaround facility?

(Boosters are supposed, eventually, to be able to be turned and launched 2-3 times a day. Ships will need tile repair/replacement as well as loading of their next payloads, whether Starlink satellites or other commercial orbital payloads - and eventually tankers and lunar landers etc.)

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