Comment by lupusreal
15 days ago
The new space company is over twenty years old. For such a long development time I figured they actually had a reasonable chance of nailing the booster landing. I bet they'll do it next time.
15 days ago
The new space company is over twenty years old. For such a long development time I figured they actually had a reasonable chance of nailing the booster landing. I bet they'll do it next time.
Only in the last couple years has blue had a similar headcount https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6851212...
Sounded like maybe a telemetry loss, which is hard to fully simulate. They'll abort to be conservative in these situations even if the rocket could land itself without tele-operation.
Stage 1 is remotely operated? I find that surprising.
I’m not knowledgeable in the deep technical details of rocketry. But curious - how else would the first stage be operated? Should it be autonomous?
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No, but they want to be able to remotely abort.
It also helps that they fairly routinely land boosters (with New Shepard), which means they've likely worked out the 'landing' part.
Now to see if they can solve the reentry problem.