• clothes@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wow! I am so impressed. Seems like they took a cautious trajectory and burned lots of fuel on the landing, but that looked great!

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        2 months ago

        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.

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    2 months ago

    Absolutely beautiful flight. The engineers deserve every bit of the pride they’re feeling right now.