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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
... In article , says... If they can do this 4 or 5 times in a row even if they have 1 failure after that, then might be adequate for an unmanned booster. More likely though they'll have couple of successes then a failure. Suicide-burn is inherently less reliable than a hovering approach. Agreed. But that said, space shuttle glide landings were inherently less reliable than powered landings, yet it was "safe enough" that we did not see a landing failure during that program. To fair we'd had over 8 decades of experience of gliding/horizontal landings and we had the Mark I eyeball in the cockpit to respond to unknowns. SpaceX is gaining experience with this mode of recovery even if a thrust to weight greater than one is not ideal. On their next reusable launch vehicle design, they should have the opportunity to make improvements. Exactly what improvements may very well depend on how the rest of the Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy program pans out. Ayup. Jeff -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net |
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