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Isn't that a part of LA or something? Right next to LAX? I don't see them being cool with dropping rockets on a massive city...

Somehow that sounds like something Elon might do

Well yeah, but a ship can do what, 30 knots? 35 knots? I understand that would be some serious speed for a ship, but it's actually not that fast; about 65 km/h. So they'd have to either be pretty much on point already or deploy the chute so high up that the stage falls under it for a loooooooooong time to allow the ship to snail into position. If they have enough accuracy for that, I'd imagine targeting some place on the ground would be possible as well. Maybe stick some of those fancy grid fins to the stage for terminal guidance before the chute opens, you should get to within a few hundred meters. And if you make the bouncy house mobile, land vehicles CAN be pretty quick if there's nothing in the way to care about. As for the net, pretty large I imagine, although you'd have to put it up rather high to allow it to stretch when it gets whacked by several tons of spacecraft. Also, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Precision_Airdrop_System Steerable chutes seem to be a thing, and this system gets to under 100m accuracy apparently. Maybe borrow from that somehow?

Maybe this is all barking up the wrong tree anyway. Since that upper stage goes into some kind of orbit anyway, couldn't they have it come around entirely and, you know, "land" it properly, like, on land? That would solve the sea water issue completely... There's some nice large desert areas in the US where that wouldn't be so bad I guess.

Or they could put an inflatable heatshield on the front, inside the payload adapter, and reenter that way to protect the engine, then deploy parachutes out from the engine-end of the stage to slow down for a "bounce" on whatever they have floating on the water; that could be a ship like ASDS with a "blow-up-landing-cushion" instead of a landing pad; maybe even both, so the ASDS become dual use depending on what you want to land on it.

Maybe he wants the Stage to land on airbags because it's heavier than the fairing and a boat can't catch it from freefall or when it comes down under a parachute. The airbags might also be floatation devices for waterlandings.

You could probably map that, but I doubt you'll learn anything from that. AFAIK Launch windows have to do with the intended final orbit and are simply calculated backwards for minimum fuel requirements.

Was the last new Block IV from what I understand.

Well, ESO HQ is about 1 hour away, but the cool stuff they have is in Chile.

Well, Orlando to the coast is less than 1 hour... I'd try to make that happen because AWESOME. I live in Germany, so no spaceport within thousands of kilometers...

I think he means INTO the solar system, as in "interplanetary space, orbiting the sun". Extrasolar would be rather unexpected :-)

Scott Manley just made a Video explaining some of the peculiarities of the orbit this baby is going into:

Well, it's basically a survey telescope to spot targets for closer analysis by better telescopes (for which telescope time is limited and therefore expensive).

So you're playing career mode? Also, since you talk about a "Mission", I presume you have 1.4.1 including the new DLC - are you sure all your Mods are actually updated for that? A lot of the larger mods are still being updated at this time, so you might have an incompatible, outdated mod on your hands...

Well, too bad I won't even be able to see anything from Germany, even IF reentry happened over the mediterranean (which it most likely won't...). That would have been ONE COOL EASTER GIFT xD