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Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

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Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

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  • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
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    The names they use for products make it difficult to take them seriously.

    • mercano@lemmy.world
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      I’m guessing those names come from the very top.

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        The bottom of the top.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      They can’t name everything after a Greek god, there are only so many Greek gods.

      Also Firefly aerospace call their engines Rever and Miranda engines

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    That is darn cool! And it makes the booster lighter, as it doesn’t need the giant legs to land on.

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      And makes turnaround much faster since it’s already back on the launch pad.

      Though it does make it so a damaged launch pad from either an abnormal launch or landing can stop all launch progress until things are rebuilt. We’ve seen the very reliable Falcon 9 damage the drone ships with a hard landing.

      Would be interesting to see more than the two launch towers created to create more redundancy.

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    Cool beans.

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    woah. is this real? never seen anything like it. aren’t those rockets like 200 feet tall too? wow, might just be stoned but this is really blowing my mind.

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      The booster is ~70 meters tall or ~230 feet.

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        so strange to see something that big move like this

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