Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing
by CydeWeys on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:56PM
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After accomplishing their primary mission, which is a key distinction. If you blow up on landing that just means you lose your reuse discount on a future flight.
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Re:SpaceX SN9 Explodes on Landing
by AstralStorm on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:53PM
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That's no good for Starship, which is meant to land with passengers and hardware on board.
Yeah, which is why they're making Starship better than the Falcon 9 in being able to land safely even when things go wrong (i.e. Starship can throttle down enough to hover). They're still in the early prototyping stages. You can't judge potential long-term reliability based solely on what we've seen so far.