Re:SN9 flipping maneuver didn’t go so well
by darig on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:50PM
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Lots of controlled movements near the range of success. Within a few iterative steps it will be foolproof. That is why they called it SN9 instead of SNFinal. Seems to me that it went as well as planned.
Re:SN9 flipping maneuver didn’t go so well
by ncmncm on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:48PM
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It was poor planning to light engines so close to the ground. Doing it higher up might have enabled re-lighting the third (spare!) engine instead. That's another three expensive Raptor engines used up, maybe unnecessarily.
But maybe the point was just to put some fear-of-god into SN10: "See what happens when you don't cooperate? It would be a shame if that happened to you."
But maybe the point was just to put some fear-of-god into SN10: "See what happens when you don't cooperate? It would be a shame if that happened to you."