Re:SpaceX SES-9 Mission Live Webcast
by generj on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:55PM
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Ah, OK. For some reason I had the mental image of a bunch of inexpensive ships which would surely sink if they got hit at high velocity. It's pretty incredible, given how large the rockets are, that the ship dwarfs them, but recalling earlier landing videos you are correct.
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Just to put some numbers on it, this barge is the MARMAC 304, modified by SpaceX. According to this page:
http://www.mcdonoughmarine.com/recent-news.html
That ship has a cargo capacity of over 13,000 tons. I believe an empty Falcon 9 first stage is around 20 tons. Totally different scales.