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ChuckMcM 17 hours ago

And I sit corrected as it was able to lay down without rupturing the tanks and 'sploding. So that's another win.

What I find really amazing and cool is that while its reentering the engineering team can drive it around and look at heating effects on tiles/spars/etc all while retrieving telemetry by Starlink. What many people don't realize is that early capsules were the shape they were because that was the limit of what they could simulate for re-entry forces. The ability to get real time confirmation of systems response in re-entry is a capability that we've never had. So there's that.

So at this point it looks like they are down to un-reliabile raptor relights on the booster.

Congrats to everyone who worked on this.

dylan604 16 hours ago | parent [-]

The size of ship being big enough to create a hole in the ionization to continue to communicate with Starlink is something that I think gets underappreciated.