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    An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing...
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    the company achieved the first successful landing on the autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean. By...
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    uncrewed surface vessel (USV), colloquially called a drone boat, drone ship or sea drone, is a boat or ship that operates on the surface of the water without...
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  • Drone ship may refer to: An autonomous spaceport drone ship or ASDS, used by SpaceX as a sea-borne rocket landing platform An unmanned surface vehicle...
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    air vehicle (MAV) Target drone Autonomous spaceport drone ship Unmanned surface vehicle (USV), also known as "surface drone", for the operation on the...
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    Later tests attempted to land the rocket precisely on an autonomous spaceport drone ship (a barge commissioned by SpaceX to provide a stable landing...
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    × 160 ft) floating platform called the autonomous spaceport drone ship. In October 2014, SpaceX had revealed that the ship was being built for SpaceX in Louisiana...
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    precision landing – first on the autonomous spaceport drone ship, and eventually on land. Blackmore, Lars (Winter 2016). "Autonomous Precision Landing of Space...
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  • remote control. Some drones are capable of safe, automatic landings, however. SpaceX operates a number of Autonomous spaceport drone ships, used to safely...
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    two ships for towing and supporting autonomous spaceport drone ship and fairing recovery operations on the east coast in May 2021. These two ships were...
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    '19   Ground-pad failure   Drone-ship failure   Ocean test failure   Parachute test failure   Ground-pad success   Drone-ship success   Ocean test success...
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  • Are the Days of Our Lives" "Of Course I Still Love You", an autonomous spaceport drone ship by SpaceX This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    liftoff, at 20:52:10 UTC, the booster landed vertically on the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You, 300 kilometers (190 mi) from the...
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    insertion land the central first stage booster core on an autonomous spaceport drone ship, the Of Course I Still Love You, in the Atlantic Ocean relight...
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  • displayed a photograph of the newly designated "autonomous spaceport drone ship" in November 2014. The ship is designed to hold position to within 3 meters...
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    Elon Musk first displayed a photograph of the "autonomous spaceport drone ship" in November 2014. The ship is designed to hold position to within 3 meters...
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    Autonomous cargo ships, also known as autonomous container ships or maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS), are crewless vessels that transport either...
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  • rocket nine minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on an "autonomous spaceport drone ship" floating platform in the Atlantic, off Florida, following...
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  • (LZ-4), USSF Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA Autonomous spaceport drone ship (SpaceX ASDS) SpaceX launch facilities Floating landing platform...
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    land on a floating platform, the autonomous spaceport drone ship, in January 2015. The rocket guided itself to the ship successfully but landed too hard...
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  • A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous...
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    attempted to conduct a first-ever propulsive landing on the Autonomous spaceport drone ship after staging. NASA has contracted for the CRS-6 mission from...
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    Flight 23, CRS-8 — first landing vertically achieved on an autonomous spaceport drone ship at sea, AMOS-6 — total vehicle and payload loss prior to static...
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    vertical ocean touchdown; no recovery For landings at sea, see Autonomous spaceport drone ship After approval from the FAA, SpaceX accomplished its first...
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    crewed mission to the ISS in 9 years. B1058 landed aboard the autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You approximately eight and a half minutes...
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    well as recover the first stage core following landing at an Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship barge after completion of primary mission requirements. These...
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    SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility at the Boca Chica village...
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    Evolutionary robotics Humanoid robot Autonomous robot Swarm robotics Microbotics Robot control AIBO Autonomous spaceport drone ship Driverless car Friendly Robotics...
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    Falcon 9 on an inland platform. Later landings were achieved on autonomous spaceport drone ships, an ocean-based recovery platform. In 2018, SpaceX launched...
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    review of video of several failed attempts to land a booster rocket on a drone ship, and then a successful return of an orbital first stage to a landing pad)...
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