The successful capture of the returning Super Heavy rocket with giant mechanical arms is a key element in SpaceX's goal of "rapid reusability"
  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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    1 month ago

    That was amazing to see live. Like, in the last kilometer of the landing, it was still traveling over 1500 km/hour, and slowed down just in the last moments.

    (for all the Americans, that’s travelling about 4.5 football fields per second, for a height of roughly 10000 burgers).