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Originally Posted by eDave
Man. That looks so precarious.
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It definitely LOOKs crazy, but it's important to keep in mind that a ton of the rocket's weight when empty is in the engines. Here's a diagram from reddit:
So if you account for 5-10 degrees of rocking due to waves, that still leaves plenty of room on top of the ~5 degrees it was leaning. The bigger issue to me is that the grid fins were completely destroyed. No surprise that they're moving to titanium moving forward.
