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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:41PM (#23838325)
> hen when they proposed propulsive landing, some NASA experts in the field thought it’d fail. I know one NASA GNC guy who said drone ship landing is impossible.

Propulsive landing was not a spacex innovation. They simply picked back up the research agenda of Delta Clipper.

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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by Robotbeat on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:58PM (#23840034)
There is one aspect that SpaceX absolutely pioneered: supersonic retropropulsion. NASA was actually planning on testing it as it's needed for landing heavy payloads on Mars, but SpaceX figured it out for "free."
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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by hef19898 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:10AM (#23842194)
To be honest, SpaceX got a ton of VC money on top of a ton of NASA money on top of a ton of government launch money.

Not saying SpaceX isn't impressive, but without published results it is impossible to tell how economic their tech is, how expensive development and so on.

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