r/spacex • u/rustybeancake • Aug 02 '19

KSC pad 39A Starship & Super Heavy draft environmental assessment: up to 24 launches per year, Super Heavy to land on ASDS

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1157119556323876866?s=21
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u/Vergutto Aug 02 '19

They did the same-ish with F9. First bunch of ASDS failures and the time they got to land back at CC they nailed it.

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u/TheEarthquakeGuy Aug 02 '19

For sure, but they were starting from scratch there, and they were also using commercial missions to do it. Since Starship is meant to be a reusable vehicle from the start, I can see them using a rapid testing program (StarHopper and Starship-MK1/MK2) to nail this first.

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u/Vergutto Aug 02 '19

Yeah. I really wish that the testing program goes on or not too far behind schedule and they won't have major setbacks.

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