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I think the upper stage missed by something like 6 km from its intended target (which is not surprising given the toasty state of the fins) - even with drones you couldn't really bracket a large enough area to get good camera footage.

Basically it definitely wouldn't be worth the expense for the benefit - I think they'd prefer just to film the one which nails it.




I’d bet that Starship will have a continuously updated, estimated landing point throughout the whole maneuver anyways. A plane can easily go 6km in about a minute (at a mere 360km/h), so if there was a plane trying to film the descent and landing, it will have some kind of footage.


Where are they getting the material for their next blooper reel though? But yeah you're probably right.


What’s the source on that? The feed said trajectory was nominal the whole time


Interview with Elon by Ellie in Space - this is around the time stamp: https://youtu.be/tjAWYytTKco?si=Iz1k7sfNsGK3vZp7&t=141

He says it was 6 kilometers off geographically, but executed the landing well.




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