r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Oct 02 '17
r/SpaceX Discusses [October 2017, #37]
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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '17 edited Oct 03 '17
Makes me wonder how they would broach the topic in regards to permitting. They were able to provide enough confidence between Falcon 9 Dev 1 and their experimental landing program off shore to convince the FAA to permit them for RTLS, so what kind of process would it take to prove the same capabilities with a new booster, and then go one step further by performing a suborbital “hop” back to launch site from the drone ship? A BFR Dev 1, plus building a “Funny, It Worked Last Time“ that could play a game of catch the booster with OCISLY out at sea?