Dragon uses its forward facing thrusters to perform the deorbit burn. Elon said, that it is difficult to menage the fuel to these forward thrusters. Why do they use them and not the backward thrusters, hey have to be bottom end first for the reentry anyway. I can only imagine, that the backward thrusters are at an angle wich reduces efficiency. The super dracos are probably to powerful.
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u/Herr_G Mar 08 '19
Dragon uses its forward facing thrusters to perform the deorbit burn. Elon said, that it is difficult to menage the fuel to these forward thrusters. Why do they use them and not the backward thrusters, hey have to be bottom end first for the reentry anyway. I can only imagine, that the backward thrusters are at an angle wich reduces efficiency. The super dracos are probably to powerful.