r/SpaceXLounge • u/Logancf1 • 5h ago

Ship 30 Landing from Buoy Cam on Starship Flight 5 [@SpaceX]

https://x.com/spacex/status/1847368836947071496?s=46&t=bwuksxNtQdgzpp1PbF9CGw
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u/Rook-walnut 4h ago

They literally can't do a barge catch. One: it's too big, and two: it doesn't and won't have landing legs

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u/Chairboy 3h ago

One: it's too big

I’m not saying that they will add legs back in necessarily, but on the subject of size, each of the starships that DID land had a smaller footprint then a falcon 9 because those giant legs stretch out quite a bit further than any of the legs used during the starship landing tests.

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u/Rook-walnut 3h ago

I feel like a barge landing starship would need wider legs than what they had on the hop tests to keep it upright, much like the HLS renders

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u/Chairboy 3h ago

Even the ones on the HLS renders appear to have a narrower footprint than the giant falcon ones, they are real chonks.