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Re:SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first su... by arentyouspecial on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:08PM (#25368147)
Planned. They wanted to test restarting the engines as if it was reentering the atmosphere.
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Re:SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first su... by ansible on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:47AM (#25371359)
Definitely planned. If you look closely at the SpaceX stream, the first two engines that were shut down were the ones restarted during the landing flip maneuver.

Too bad about the loss of fuel pressure from the header tank. SN8 wasn't quite on the landing pad, but it was close.

We also didn't see the landing legs deploy, not sure why that didn't happen.

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Re:SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first su... by virgilp on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:30AM (#25372526)
My understanding is that the speed didn't get low enough for landing legs to deploy.
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