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Started by Legend, Jan 07, 2017, 05:32 PM

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Legend

Awesome! That's incredible! :o

I would have watched but I was out with some friends
Next launch is on the 28th if you're interested. Won't be attempting a landing though. The booster would have poor chances of success and even if it did land, it'd take a lot of damage from reentry. Plus SpaceX is working on the Falcon 9 Block 5 which is optimized for cheap reuse so most of the currently landed rockets won't be used that much anyway.

In the future with a heavy launch like this, they'd use the Falcon Heavy. It uses three boosters instead of one, but that means there's plenty of excess fuel and two can fly back to Florida like today. Third booster lands on the drone ship with minimal heat damage as well.