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Old December 6th 18, 08:35 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Falcon 9 Delivers Dragon Into Orbit, Flubs Landing

Jeff Findley wrote on Thu, 6 Dec 2018
06:06:49 -0500:



Luckily, they're not very far away from port.


It's not 'luck' in this case. The 'abort landing' case is designed to
do that.


I still think it's funny that people focus so much on the landing when
that's gravy for SpaceX.


Yeah. Let's examine the successful landings of other space boosters.
Oh wait...


The primary customer (this time NASA) doesn't
care if the landing succeeds or not, just that the payload (this time
Dragon) gets into the correct orbit. By all accounts, this was yet
another successful *launch* of Falcon 9.


Yep. Recovery is only a secondary goal. Yep, everything went
perfectly with the launch. Only recovery had a glitch. With 33
successful recoveries under their belt, it's going to take a good long
time for anyone to match SpaceX's record.


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