/sci/ - Science & Math

I am super excited about the launch scheduled for Sunday.

They're sending one up with legs on it!

If the FAA had given approval, they'd be bringing it back to attempt a landing near the launch site, but they didn't, so they're going to try and "land" it on the ocean.

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It's somewhat difficult. You need a lot of roll control, which they don't really get from the cold gas thrusters (and the main landing engine doesn't really help either since it's mounted in the center, and they can't point the gas generator exhaust like they could with Falcon 1). So quite a major change was needed.

Fortunately, the thing needed legs anyway if they were going to land it properly, and they expect the legs to cut way down on the spinning.