I guess the counterargument is that as long as you bring it down in a "safe" area, you don't really need a 100% success rate.
If you can reuse it, great, if not, well, it's a rocket.
If you can reuse it, great, if not, well, it's a rocket.
They didn’t launch humans on the Falcon 9 for the first 10 years either. Lots of time to iron out the kinks (though it will likely be much less than 10 years this time)
That looks like an awful lot of G’s that this maneuver is pulling there.
This suicide burn is just to try to recover the rocket to save money.
This sounds even crazier than the bellyflop-swivel-to-suicide-burn (BSTSB).
So the Starship system is some type of 3 piece mechanism? Where the 3rd piece is the human module?
And they’re going to land this with parachutes? Where? In the ocean?
Won’t this kill the reusability of the plan, for quick turn around time?
Granted, if the BSTSB is to only be used for transporting inorganic materials, like fuel, then G-forces does not matter for human usage.