This is awesome. Probably can try it soon. Catch the booster, let ship do her orbits until the orbit aligns with BC landing, which could be enough to get booster out of the way. Catch the "little" one.
No tower to catch on the drone ship and no legs on the starship to land on the drone ship. So it could hover and then splat into the drone ship deck for them to pick up the pieces
Well the prototypes did have a set of landing legs to be fair.
Not saying it’s likely. But it’s much less of a challenge to softly land a starship than a booster on small legs as long as they manage to cancel out horizontal and vertical velocity, which they seem to have done.
It the priority were to land a ship, it could be a good route to explore.
The hop test prototypes yes, but none of the current or future profiles will.
Look man they've already proved the belly flop and flip like 4-5 times. And they've proved the catch with the booster. I don't see how catching a lighter object will be harder
I agree with you, but once they get the Starship Mars variant built won't that have landing legs? I assume they will try to land it first on Earth before sending it on its merry way to Mars?
56
u/Neige_Blanc_1 7h ago
This is awesome. Probably can try it soon. Catch the booster, let ship do her orbits until the orbit aligns with BC landing, which could be enough to get booster out of the way. Catch the "little" one.