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Dragon receives long-planned propulsive landing upgrade after years of development - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what changed to get it approved after all this time.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's only approved as an "oh shit, we are going to die" process. It's not a system they want to see used.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Understood, but I'm asking why it wasn't an approved last ditch backup plan until now. Did they do more testing or sumulation recently? Is NASA more risk averse after Starliner and digging deeper into backup backups?

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

From the article it sounded like it just needed more SpaceX development time to polish it up and come up with software that NASA was happy with.

[–] ptfrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

You heard it on Lemmy first!: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25840892 (very soon after Stich first mentioned it)