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Falcon 9 landing leg breaks free, slams into the deck of the company’s droneship - BGR
Jul 10, 2020 42 secs
While ground crews were working on retracting the booster’s landing legs, one of them appears to break free of its constraints and come crashing down to the ground below.

The video clearly shows engineers working on the rocket, slowly bringing its landing legs into an upright position.

The workers reportedly were able to secure the leg again, and given the rigorous testing the Falcon 9 hardware goes through, it would seem unlikely that the rapid drop did any serious harm to the landing leg.

SpaceX is a company that regularly celebrates its own shortcomings, and while this might not even count as a bump in an otherwise smooth road of rocket launches, refurbishment, and relaunches, It’s still interesting to see the process that a used rocket goes through as it’s being readied for transportation back to SpaceX

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