I wonder why they didn’t catch the heavy booster?
testing booster re entry
Too heavy. OOF!!!
They were testing landing, but at that distance they probably don’t have the ability to land it, so they just made sure it could get vertical and hover before dumping it.
The wild thing was watching reentry. Many people have never seen what it looks like.
It’s too big for the ship. And probably too big from the existing landing area.
I wonder why they didn’t catch the heavy booster?
They aren’t planning on using that model again so there was no sense in taking the chance of a crash landing at the launch site.
They wanted to test an “engine out” scenario. That test was successful ... the booster hovered where it was supposed to hover, then went in the drink.