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At this point, we are highly confident of being able to land
successfully on a floating launch pad or back at the launch site
and refly the rocket with no required refurbishment.

Isn't that last bit a tad, well, optimistic? Have they really
recovered enough of these things to know there won't be any
refurbishment required? I would have thought that actually getting
one back fully intact would be something of a pre-requisit for
determining no refurbishment was required.

I'd say so, at least for "land successfully on a floating launch pad".
Unless we're talking about something as stable as a platform like those
used in oil drilling, the "floating launch pad" is going to be bobbing
around in the sea, making landing on it quite a bit more difficult than
a fixed landing pad. We'll have to wait until Flights 14 and 15 to see
exactly what SpaceX is going to try next.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer