Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
by fortepianissimo on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @04:20PM
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For all the rocket science, why can't they get a lens that deices itself?
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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
by jccooper on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @04:23PM
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They will. It's not been seen to be a problem before, so they went with the simplest solution. In rockets, every ounce counts. Now they know it happens (at least sometimes) in this very novel flight regime, they'll do something about it--the linked post even says so explicitly.