#SpaceX: Will not land at sea on an oil rig platforms -- for now. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 23 February 2023
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#SpaceX: Will not land at sea on an oil rig platforms -- for now. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-abandons-plan-to-convert-floating-oil-platforms-into-starship-superheavy-landing-spots/
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| 1:36.0 | The progress Raid developed last weekend. |
| 1:43.0 | And its cooling system, same as the Soyuz, as they were getting close to the end of its life anyway. |
| 1:53.0 | over the ocean, but when it undocked, they purposely rolled it so they could take pictures |
| 1:58.4 | and try to see if they could spot where the damage was. |
| 2:02.3 | And I posted on behind the black a picture of that damage. |
| 2:06.2 | It's also, it's very hard to see and they weren't initially obvious, but the Russians have |
| 2:12.0 | now released the pictures showing where they think that damage is indicating that damage. |
| 2:17.9 | And it's almost in the same approximate place as the whole in the Soyuz that leaked in December. |
| 2:25.6 | As the person on Twitter who posted this image in English for us says, quote, I can't even |
| 2:32.5 | calculate the odds of two spacecraft being struck in almost the same place within weeks |
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