Launch, Land, Repeat
Am I the only one finding the last 2 BO videos highly disingenuous ?<p>As mentioned numerous times, there's the whole "reaching space" vs "going into orbit" before landing.<p>More important to me is the fact that SpaceX is streaming its different tries in _live_, taking the risk of crashing the rocket out in the open. How many vehicles did BO lose before achieving a vertical landing ?<p>Oh, and what about the fact that they have total control on the location and time of the launch ? Meaning they basically control weather to an accuracy no one launching anything useful into space has. For example, last failed SpaceX landing was officially linked to fog icing the leg locks. That's not going to happen if you launch on a clear day from the desert.<p>These are more comparable to the Grasshoper tries than to anything SpaceX has done recently : no horizontal speed, full weather control, no reporting on failed attempts, very limited weight. Even the last grasshoper video seemed to have more side winds that had to be countered than this 100k altitude video.<p>Even the format of the video itself screams "vaporware" to me. It looks like a trailer for a bad action movie, where some spacey something goes to space, separates and lands back in 15 seconds. When the grasshoper videos left me in awe, looping over them 5 times in a row, the BO ones just make me feel like they sh/could end with some sexual innuendo over their big rocket