this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
130 points (95.1% liked)

SpaceflightMemes

637 readers
117 users here now

A Lemmy analogue to r/SpaceXMasterRace.

Related communities for serious posts and discussion.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

A hot staging thing [Daily Hopper]

New comic by @daily_hopper

#spacex #space #starship #ift5 @spaceflightmemes

(Slight misspelling noted: Asterix is a French comic book character. *Asterisk* is likely the intended word)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone tracked it until splashdown, so by using the camera angle and landmarks they can pinpoint the exact position it fell in and fish it out, it was pretty close to shore!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

and fish it out

It appears that SpaceX have sent HOS Ridgewind to do exactly that: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14548731 (see "Maritime" section)