Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
by shellfishgene on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:06PM
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From the control point of view, isn't this exactly the same as F9 landing on a pad, except the pad is virtual, floating in between the chopsticks and the ground? Or course one difference is that the approach needs to be from the correct direction.
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I seems to remember some article mentioning the Falcon 9 using radar (+ presumably other sensors) & even having a landing site map uploaded (mainly for the return to launch site scenarios) with prioritized exclusion zones in case of a landing failure.
Hans Koenigsmann alluded to mapping during the CRS-16 post-flight press conference.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video]
by jessriedel on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:48PM
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A major difference is that F9 (landing on a wide flat pad) had a quite wide acceptable horizontal error, 10 meters or more, whereas I think this (landing between two chopsticks) needs like ~1 meter accuracy in the radial direction.