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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by MayeulC on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @07:28AM (#16323967)
On the other hand, if you look carefully at the landing video, it looks like they did a three-engine landing boost on the other boosters: https://youtu.be/BBA7su98v3Y?t=517 So they have definitely learned something valuable in that landing incident.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by dtparr on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:02AM (#16324799)
Interesting. Looks like a 1-3-1 burn (start with 1, ignite two more for a bit, then finish on a single one).

I wonder how much longer the '3 engine burn' was for the GovSat launch last week that did a 'water landing'

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by simonh on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:01AM (#16324084)
Cool. I'd assumed they only did that with the centre core, but you're right.
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