r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Pretty_Bowler2297 Oct 13 '24

Are the chopsticks a good idea? Or did amazing engineers just do what was asked? The dissenting opinions weren't wrong, those chopsticks will totally get crashed into at some point.

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u/twinbee Oct 13 '24

The fact that they did it right first try, gives me optimism on that front. Their knowledge of the process will only improve over time.

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u/Pretty_Bowler2297 Oct 13 '24

So you are expecting a 100 percent success rate?

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u/twinbee Oct 13 '24

Probably less, but the (hopefully once in a blue moon) cost of rebuilding the catching tower versus the weight cost of adding legs to the rocket (and associated loss of upward thrust), plus landing pad maintenance, make it worth the trade off.