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Originally Posted by masraum
As stated in the video, anything past clearing the tower was considered a success.
So, the plan was to get the thing at least 300' in the air (or however tall the tower is) and anything after that was gravy. It launched and got way up there and did a couple of flips. That's a success.
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Well, not if you consider the thing was also meant to be reusable. If it got >300’ then fell in the ocean intact enough to reuse: success!
I don’t know if that was a consideration in calculating what a success would be. It seems flushing $3b to get a rocket 300’ in the air doan make no sense.