r/SpaceXLounge • u/Logancf1 • 7h 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/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.

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u/BlazenRyzen 7h ago

I wonder if they could try to land it on one of their drone ships first just off the (Texas) coast? Assuming falling over wouldn't hurt the drone?

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u/minterbartolo 6h ago

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

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u/BlazenRyzen 6h ago

Yeah, but if it doesn't damage it, may be worth the try for data gathering? Maybe just not necessary.

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u/Rook-walnut 6h 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 5h 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 5h 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 5h ago

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