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Flight 4 Booster Recovery (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by llamacoffee to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Source tweet and direct link to highest resolution of the photo: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYH8OxxXkAAuK6J?format=jpg&name=orig

Video with more info on what is known of the recovery process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyMn1mIJUUE

[–] danc4498 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why so secretive?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In terms of only recovering things under the cover of night, and hiding them under tarps? Not sure, maybe for ITAR concerns? Then again, we have the CEO posting the above photo on twitter for all to see, so perhaps ITAR is not a concern...

[–] TheYang 14 points 1 month ago

Releasing a single image after legal cleared it, is completely different from not doing enough for anyone with a camera renting a helicopter to take snapshots of whatever is left.

from memory I think it's for example combustion chamber / injector design which is the crux here, none of that is visible, but could be from different angles.