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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by raverbashing on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:36AM (#40606921)
Well, yeah it was reliable but with a lot of artifacts

I honestly couldn't make out much of what was being shown at those last moments. And I'm curious why SpaceX didn't have a ship there at the expected landing site to assess the landing (maybe they thought it wouldn't make it)?

It was a great event, surely, but it would have been nice to have a 3rd person view of the landing (you have the diagram at the bottom but it's not the same thing) .

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by ceejayoz on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:45AM (#40607297)
They don’t have a ship there so burning rocket debris doesn’t kill people. Once they’re confident they can land it in a specific place in one piece, expect them to drop it with cameras present.

The issue at the end wasn’t as much artifacts as it was the camera housing getting blasted during the descent. It visibly cracked as the fin caught fire.

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by rbanffy on Friday June 07, 2024 @09:57AM (#40608758)
I hope someone recovers that fin. It kept working despite all the damage it took.
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