Falcon Heavy from SpaceX delivering Arabsat, and landing 3 for 3 …
This is the triumph of Mathematics and physical reality over all the other crap and nonsense we hear about.
This is what will always win first, despite anything else, in the long term.
- B.
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- L. Blackmore, “Autonomous precision landing of space rockets”, in Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2016 Symposium. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017.
- L. Blackmore, B.
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