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- spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
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- spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
Congrats to the teams
those spot weld things are really neat
Wow! I am so impressed. Seems like they took a cautious trajectory and burned lots of fuel on the landing, but that looked great!
I guess escapade being tiny gave them a lot more margin
The Glenn’s first stage can hover. Even nearly empty, the booster is heavy enough and the BE-4 can throttle low enough that it doesn’t need to do a suicide burn. Instead, and as they just demonstrated, it can just gently lower itself down on the deck.
Takes more prop to do so, but for a second attempt, the decision to play it safe was perfectly sound. It’s practically guaranteed that they’ll dial the margins in with more flights. This might be the softest landing that a New Glenn ever experiences.
I wonder if they’ll go with for full Falcon 9 style suicide burn at some point.
Absolutely beautiful flight. The engineers deserve every bit of the pride they’re feeling right now.



