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Wow!!! It looks great!!! Stand by for more info in a bit! 
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@Peter_J_Beck - "The test was a complete success, maybe even more than we had imagined"
@Peter_J_Beck "We impacted the ocean at 9 m/s, 1 m/s below expected"
@Peter_J_Beck "We have incredible footage we& #39;ll be sharing in the next couple days" Ooooo I can& #39;t wait!!! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="LĂ€chelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: LĂ€chelndes Gesicht mit herzförmigen Augen">
@Peter_J_Beck "The stage survived coming back from space, but took quite the beating in the sea" (Don& #39;t forget water recovery isn& #39;t part of the long term plan, just the first step of this recovery testing process before trying to recover with a helicopter)
@Peter_J_Beck "We& #39;ll take parts off and try and requalify them for flight and try and requalify the whole stage for flight. Then we& #39;ll some day refly components and then a whole stage"
@Peter_J_Beck "We& #39;ll probably run a very similar mission again. We& #39;ll move some instrumentation around and improve some thermal protection systems. We know the TPS wasn& #39;t perfect because we didn& #39;t have the data to know what should or shouldn& #39;t be"
@Peter_J_Beck "We& #39;re not surprised some areas took a real lashing. But we got a stage back, we got fantastic data, we& #39;re real confident Electron can be a reusable launch vehicle."
@Peter_J_Beck "It& #39;s clear to say that reentry environments exceed launch environments. We need to recertify all parts for descent"
@Peter_J_Beck "The recovery system takes about a 10kg payload hit. We might add another 5kg, possibly 10kg in payload capacity in recovery hardware."
@Peter_J_Beck "Some of the modifications to the heatshield will remain on every flight (expended or not). Because it just takes too much to change out for different configurations"
@Peter_J_Beck "(With recovery) You do add another operational constraint. We monitor various weather conditions down range. That& #39;s driving the operational constraints we& #39;ll see." (talking about whether or not launches may scrub because weather for recovery)
@Peter_J_Beck "The powerpack heatshield is currently not designed for reentry, it& #39;s designed for ascent. We likely won& #39;t be sharing any pictures of the powerpack because it& #39;s missing some heatshields and sharing some of the secret sauce"
@Peter_J_Beck "It& #39;s pretty roasty down there. But we& #39;ve got data and it puts us in a great position to redesign the heatshield. We thought about redesigning it before the mission, but we thought that& #39;d be a bit of a stab in the dark."
@Peter_J_Beck "I& #39;m guessing by the end of this it& #39;ll look incredibly obvious and go "wow why didn& #39;t we think of this". Like anything that& #39;s well designed it looks incredibly obvious, but until you go through it, there& #39;s a lot of unknowns."
@Peter_J_Beck "Our whole intention is to take the whole stage, pick it up, recharge it and fly"
@Peter_J_Beck "The interstage components look like new! The whole interstage is looking really really wonderful. If we can get the whole vehicle to look and perform like that, that& #39;ll take away a huge amount of time (increase cadence of flight)"
"We& #39;re trying to avoid recovery taking as much time as building a stage from scratch." "One Electron is hauling off the line in slightly under 30 days. We set a record the other day at about 18 days" (production of a new stage)
@Peter_J_Beck "Yes, the air capture is something we& #39;ve doubled down on. Pulling rockets out of the ocean isn& #39;t fun. Air capture will be the way going forward (eventually). We enjoy the freedom of the LC-1 range. It& #39;s a private range and very little doing."
@Peter_J_Beck "Once we get it down, we don& #39;t want to fly just expendables out of Wallops. We do have an excellent helicopter pilot for recovery." (Hoping to do recovery at wallops some day. Might take a bit longer for many logistic considerations)
@Peter_J_Beck "If you can get an uber to be the same price as a bus ticket, that really changes things. It has the potential to really change the economics"
@Peter_J_Beck "If we can get reusability to the point where it& #39;s a light touch between flights, the economics can really change. I& #39;m not going to guess what those economics are going to be. The majority of the cost of building electron are stage one."
@Peter_J_Beck "It& #39;s hard to say just yet because we don& #39;t know how much refurbishment and testing will need to be done. But if it& #39;s a small amount, expect the economics to change."
@Peter_J_Beck "We& #39;re a conservative kind of bunch. So we haven& #39;t been modeling our future launch cadence around reuse." (the number of currently projected future flights does NOT factor in potential reuse)
@Peter_J_Beck "I can dismiss that (working on second stage recovery). I will not put another hat up on that. But we are not working on that."
Peter DOES plan to eat his hat, despite people telling him he shouldn& #39;t... It MIGHT be a part of (or the whole thing) made of wool, but he might go with something more edible if people insist for his own safety.
