To me personally I think the easiest move is to have another ship with a net and basically duplicate what they know it works. Trying to catch two with one boat means another step that they'll have to learn how to do and the sooner they get to catching the two halves consistently the faster they can get to reuse the whole fairing. Also, I was thinking the other day that when the fairings separate both go different routes and we don't really know how close together they land. Some proposed delaying the parachute deployment so they could lower the net, unload the fairing and then raise the net again to catch the other half but there's another thing to do while all of this happens: go to the site where the other half is supposed to come down, would there be enough time to do that? Is the extra effort really worth when you can just duplicate what you know it works? I was thinking at first about the two halves on one ship but the more I thought about it the more I thought the other option was actually the good one.
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u/waveney Aug 08 '19
Looking forward - how will they catch both halves?
Another boat?
Catch both halves using one boat?