On: Falcon Heavy core booster lost at sea

[vermontdevil]

Musk elaborated this during the press conference. Said the core booster hit 100m from the barge at almost 500kph.

[craftyguy → vermontdevil]

That's actually a good time to miss the barge. Fortunately the booster didn't score a barge hit at 500kph!

[ygra → craftyguy]

The booster's trajectory points to water until pretty shortly before landing. Precisely so that when things go wrong the expected result is to miss the drone ship (or landing pad).

[bpye → ygra]

Wonder if it would have been >100m away had all the engines failed. One engine working may have resulted in it attempting an approach?