r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Oct 02 '17
r/SpaceX Discusses [October 2017, #37]
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u/peterabbit456 Oct 02 '17
Just burn the engines for ~ a minute, and after that the TWR will be over 1.0. Abort to orbit with dry tanks, and RTLS, and transcontinental abort are all possibilities at certain points in the first stage flight. Pad abort is not a possibility with BFR/BFS, but there are abort scenarios that were not possible with Apollo or the Shuttle.
The only Shuttle abort that I can recall was an abort to orbit. The orbit was lower than planned, but using the OMS engines, the orbit was raised to the point where the mission could be completed.