SpaceX launches Starlink batch on 50th mission of 2024, nails landing 

Ice maybe.

This is a sort of a smoke that comes out of the rocket engine

Retro engines. It does correct the trajectory of stage 1

Not the stabilizer bursts… the small tiny black dot moving towards the top left of the screen

@@zachhilty6822 alright, I'll check the video again

Ice

not ice. an actual part of the engine.

Sure, professor. Is your donkey ready to follow Starlink?

​​@@cairoincThen why are u asking? Btw. that was ice

it's part of the mechanism, identical movement on every launch, not ice

It was well within the circle, but I have noticed a few boosters landing a bit outside the X lately. Not sure if they are getting sloppy :P

A little too close for comfort...

It’s on purpose to avoid damaging just the middle of the droneship

The landing was just fine and inside the circle, maybe not perfect but considering how many times SpaceX has done it, I wouldn't be worried. Remember that computers fly the rockers

That's how it works! They don't aim for the centre of the circle for landing, they aim at it while in flight when speed's high enough for the grid fins to have some authority. By the time landing burn starts, the only thing they're aiming at is 0 metres above the deck (and upright?) as the rate of change of altitude goes from negative to zero. The circle is like their 'expected maximum location error' after the control regime changes. That's what makes the suicide burn so awesome compared to New Shepard fannying about in hover like it's looking for the X - they're 'doing it wrong'.

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Literally 😂

They have to launch even more frequent the next 7.5 months to get to 144. Right now it will be 133 with the same frequency.

And democRat marxists hate it.