Yep. They were boosters.
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Sunday's SpaceX failure
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The boosters landed at the Cape, the main body landed on a drone ship out yonder ways. (It fired longer, so it was farther from Florida.)
 (February 6, 2018 at 6:47 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The boosters landed at the Cape, the main body landed on a drone ship out yonder ways. (It fired longer, so it was farther from Florida.) They announced later that the core actually failed to land. Hit the ocean at over 300mph. That must have been a sight to see!
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Bummer. RUD event (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly). Landing on the barges is more difficult than a landing on solid ground. They had a long string of successes there in any event. Perhaps the center motor failed to re-light or it just ran out of fuel. Still, a spectacular overall mission. Those two strap-on boosters returning to the cape within seconds of each other was one of the most impressive things we've seen in the decades of space endeavors.
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If you watch the video of the event they posted you can almost feel the speed bump when they don't announce the core landing. Good skills on the presenters, they didn't flinch.
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