It’s pretty damn amazing to watch the LM-10 flight test unfold like this after the constant rhetoric of “Oh its iterative design” from certain other programs… Turns out you can set your expectation as success from day 1 and it can work, even with a new idea.
Cosmic PenguinI once suggested something like this as a back-up system for recovering Starship boosters, before Flight 5 stunned me with the chopsticks catching method. But boy did the most experienced Chinese rocket state institute chose the right way to success... m.weibo.cn/detail/53191...