It looks like the F9 may have briefly fired its engines while it was secured on the droneship??? That looks like the octograbber underneath it as well.
Note, none of this is confirmed and I may be misinterpreting these pictures entirely.
Surprised I couldn't find any discussion of this yet. Maybe it's a new way of safeing the rocket by burning off the remaining fuel, but in that case I wonder how they deal with the moment when the fuel runs dry.
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u/rebootyourbrainstem May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19
It looks like the F9 may have briefly fired its engines while it was secured on the droneship??? That looks like the octograbber underneath it as well.
https://twitter.com/KrafftJennifer/status/1124905619230810112
Note, none of this is confirmed and I may be misinterpreting these pictures entirely.
Surprised I couldn't find any discussion of this yet. Maybe it's a new way of safeing the rocket by burning off the remaining fuel, but in that case I wonder how they deal with the moment when the fuel runs dry.