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Comment by bpodgursky 2 days ago

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Sounded like maybe a telemetry loss, which is hard to fully simulate. They'll abort to be conservative in these situations even if the rocket could land itself without tele-operation.

mulmen 2 days ago

Stage 1 is remotely operated? I find that surprising.

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  • nirav72 2 days ago

    I’m not knowledgeable in the deep technical details of rocketry. But curious - how else would the first stage be operated? Should it be autonomous?

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    • 0xffff2 2 days ago

      Yes. The timings involved would make it impractical to land a rocket reliably via human teleoperation even with zero latency.

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    • mulmen 2 days ago

      I’m not a rocket scientist but my assumption is that it would be internally guided and only take external inputs in the form of GPS and “land on the ship” or “don’t land on the ship”. Saturn V was manned and had a an internal guidance computer.

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