Yea that's a weird one, if it runs out of fuel and needs to come back to Earth to be refuelled, it's just gonna run out of fuel at the same point again once it goes back up, would make more sense to refuel it in space Maybe just a test to see if it's possible on Earth before trying it in space

The rocket is launched in multiple stages. The first stage shoots it to a specific altitude for whatever orbit it's trying to achieve, it then separates. The second stage continues forward the first stage falls back to earth. When they launch in Flordia by the time the first stage is falling it's usually over the Pacific. So the barge sits in the middle of the ocean and the rocket lands on it. Normally they'd go and intercept the barge and bring it back. But I guess they ultimately want to refuel it enough for it to "jump" back to Flordia without having to move the barge. I don't get that part. I can't imagine the cost of bringing the barge back by ocean is more expensive then relaunching the rocket and risking another landing. But then again I'm not a rocket scientist with a billion dollar company. Eventually they are going to be launching from East Texas on the Mexico border. I imagine that would be even easier to bring back by barge/land. As for recovery of the second stage, they may be able to do some kind of refuel in space but there would already have to be existing fuel there. I guess for longer moon/mars missions it would make more sense as the second stage would probably be used to achieve orbit on distant planets. As far as Earth orbit missions I'm pretty sure the second stage just gives the last oomph and last corrections before deployment of whatever payload. It then falls back too. Currently it just crashes into the ocean. But I think they plan on giving it extra fuel and landing it on a barge too

the rocket fuselage is self wasnt even straight or was i seeing things, imo that would never successfully land at all maybe if the fusalage was straight and not pulling it weight off center.

Its a fish eye lens, so it looks bent. Elon said it came down perfectly and would have been fine if the collet had closed properly.

damn those fish eye lens.. i dont know why people use them.

cos it looks "modern" 🙄 meanwhile cmon spacex get it together, its not rocket science. wait...

Pretty sure its because it's a GoPro (Which is Fisheye by default) and they want a wide FOV at the relatively short distance the camera is placed. They have other cameras on the barge and they usually release the footage from those a few days after in HD. I think Elon posted this video because it clearly shows the leg collapsing.

They didn't use enough struts.

They didn't use enough struts.

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