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"Stage 1 has been saved"!!!

Edit: Apparently it's not what I hoped, http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2swnth/how_well_does...

'saved' and 'safed' are pretty similar on stream...

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I heard "Stage 1 FTS has been saved" and shortly after, "Stage 2 FTS has been saved".

Not sure what FTS means but hopefully its capture was a success!

FTS means flight termination system. Meaning the thing that blows it up if it goes off course and is going to crash into people. They were saying "safed" not "saved", meaning, no longer armed.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense!

She said "Stage 1 FTS has been safed".

FTS is the flight termination system. I believe that is a self destruct mechanism in case things go very wrong. They arm it before liftoff and disable it after it's well over the ocean.

Safed.

Meaning switched off from being armed.

The reddit spacex thread suggests another 'hard' landing for stage 1. But sounds like they got close again. One day ... one day ...

I don't think they said anything after "landing burn started". They like to milk news like that a bit.

I'm guessing they don't show it live because if something went wrong, they'd like to figure out why before releasing the video, like last time. Instead of just having a failure without the known cause...

It's about managing expectations. The landings are part of an experimental R&D program, they don't necessarily need constant coverage all the time, though it is exciting to follow the progress.

I was hoping that was what that meant!

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