Comments on: China aims to reuse vertically-landed first stages by 2020 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-aims-to-reuse-vertically-landed-first-stages-by-2020/ Sat, 28 Apr 2018 00:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-aims-to-reuse-vertically-landed-first-stages-by-2020/#comment-1049743 Sat, 28 Apr 2018 00:44:27 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51393#comment-1049743 The next tech that needs to be developed by SpaceX is reactive or responsive landing gear.

If they try to roboticaly land on a place like the moon they have no exact idea of the landing area topography. It will not be perfectly flat or even.
The landing gear will have to react to this in order to keep the tall rockets vertical and stable.

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