• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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.