Total Members Voted: 169
Voting closed: 01/19/2017 07:16 pm
The second stage can blow up one second after MECO and as long as the first stage gets home, it counts.
I voted 10, though I didn't look into the spread of likely RTLS/ASDS/expended launches - so a bit arbitrary.Quote from: Lar on 12/12/2016 07:09 pmThe second stage can blow up one second after MECO and as long as the first stage gets home, it counts.BTW, I believe this condition is arbitrary and unnecessary. If an F9 or FH second stage blows up before MECO but a booster nevertheless makes it to a safe landing, then I'm claiming it and you'd be mean, mean, mean to deny me! :-)Note that Blue's booster survived the abort test and landed OK despite expectation that it wouldn't.cheers, Martin
The second stage can blow up one second after MECO (or even before, although surviving that and returning might be a bit harder) and as long as the first stage gets home, it counts. (For FH if the center core blows up on separation, but the side cores return, that's 2 cores returned)
I was going to go with 21-25... then talked myself down to 19... I'm assuming things go well...
This poll is function of result in main poll, so it is doubly unreliable.
Quote from: Mader Levap on 12/24/2016 01:20 pmThis poll is function of result in main poll, so it is doubly unreliable. I agree. IMO it would be better if this poll were about the fraction of cores landed, not the absolute number.
As a group we think SpaceX has this landing technolgy worked out.