This really is rocket science. And it almost worked. ABC News’ Mona Kosar Abdi explains what this could mean for efforts to make space travel less costly.
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Um, the Space Shuttle reused boosters. Anyway, intereresting technic. But as we see, lots can go wrong.
actually it's a New Zealand aerospace company.
1:20 "That company has landed boosters several times" lol what a joke ABC. Spacex has landed a booster 117 times!…. Meaning of Several – more than two but not many.
Oh come on now I'm supposed to be impressed by this?! Elon Musk built boosters that come down and land on their own, now that's impressive, anything after that is just nonsense.
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The idea is no big deal; fly over slow descending object and snag it. My problem here is why the design calculations of the target weight "changed" the load. Maybe wind gusts up there … I don't know .. but this alpha test should've have been completed totally successfully. Looking forward to know the reason why they had to jettison.
Practise makes perfect.
I think Elon might try this.
Yups, success just like Ukraine is winning! They call it just anything.
More space developments. I like it Picasso ✨✨✨
It’s more of a Fumble than a catch, if you can keep a hold on it. 🧹
So helicopter cost > falcon reusable booster
Fake news.
I’ll be honest, this is very anticlimactic as I was under the impression that a helicopter would be catching a rocket that was falling fast as hell from space, not a rocket that is slowly gliding from a parachute lol
But then dropped it…
Pretty cool concept, opens the door for increased diversity in the booster recycling techniques.
So they failed but called it a win thats really the day and age we live in. We are doomed
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U Americans did that in the 1960s
Elon: Our rockets lands on their own ðŸ˜Â
Wtf so thats not good if it landed in the ocean smh
1:12 Success? Perhaps more accurate to say that it "wasn't a total failure." The ultimate endgame was not achieved, though some encouraging developments took place.
I was about to say, helicopter crashes into rocket, guess I am not fully awake
Not consistent . And from an engineering point of view the flight dynamics are way too dangerous.
dude perfect if they had $1B
It Made A HISTORY
Cool idea but seem way harder to replicate consistent results.
Elon sitting in his chair laughing his aZZ off!!!!
Rocket Lab is a New Zealand company, it reregistered to be American on paper for funding.
Elon did it better