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Scott Manley talks about this landing in his most recent video presenting a 'time-slice' image of the landing - and concludes the landing burn was too early. Merlin engines can't be throttled low enough to provide slow descent, and as the booster stopped decelerating still above the deck, the only thing that could be done to prevent loss of the booster at ...
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I sincerely doubt this is "dust" of any kind. It looks and behaves like the classic sensor noise that is visible any time an image sensor is used at high gain. Noise in this case is typically described as random fluctuations in the voltage levels recorded by the image sensing system caused by factors such as local heat and variations between sensor pixels. ...
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