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SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms
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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 month ago
That was amazing to see live. Like, in the last kilometer of the landing, it was still traveling over 1500 km/hour, and slowed down just in the last moments.
(for all the Americans, that’s travelling about 4.5 football fields per second, for a height of roughly 10000 burgers).