Comment by mulmen Comment by mulmen 2 days ago 4 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News Stage 1 is remotely operated? I find that surprising.
Copy Link nirav72 2 days ago Next Collapse Comment - 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? Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link 0xffff2 2 days ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - Yes. The timings involved would make it impractical to land a rocket reliably via human teleoperation even with zero latency. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link mulmen 2 days ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - 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. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link 0xffff2 2 days ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - Yes. The timings involved would make it impractical to land a rocket reliably via human teleoperation even with zero latency. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link mulmen 2 days ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - 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. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link bpodgursky 2 days ago Prev Collapse Comment - No, but they want to be able to remotely abort. Reply View | 0 replies
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?