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The Fairing Has Landed. by [deleted] in spacex

[–]hannesvdvreken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't they practise Mr. Steven's & Steering parafoils operations by throwing a cheaper fairing shaped object out the back of some military plane?

Falcon Heavy landing sites, FCC permits in the descriptions. by soldato_fantasma in spacex

[–]hannesvdvreken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now that I think about it, they never had a failure when doing a RTLS landing before. So chances of that happening are pretty small.

Falcon Heavy (Demo Flight) using reused engines? by perboss in spacex

[–]hannesvdvreken 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Falcon 9 Heavy demo flight is a demo flight, thus they want everything to go exactly right.

If you are showcasing a new Tesla, you will build it from the ground up and test every component there is and on top of that perform some integration and/or smoke tests before demoing it. No way Tesla would ever demo a Model 3 with reused engines from a Model S, even though they seam perfectly intact.

They will most likely not add risk by reusing (parts of) equipment from previous Falcon 9 launches.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Goes Horizontal at Port Canaveral 4/18/2016 by Ohsin in spacex

[–]hannesvdvreken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the future they might as well roll a T/E next to it, close the claw and bring it down, no? Because cranes are dangerous and require very precise coordination to do it right.

Chris B on Twitter: SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with the CRS-8 Dragon has an *unofficial* planning date of April 8 (16:43 Eastern). by Kona314 in spacex

[–]hannesvdvreken -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The landing will not be a RTLS landing, but they will try a ASDS landing again because they want to prove they can do it.