Tim Dodd
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And that's been like the key.
You know, the the actually the key to SpaceX's success is this thing called G-fold.
It's a way to be able to land rockets.
I mean, that's one of their keys to success is G-fold.
It's this algorithm that basically allows them to know exactly the rocket knows exactly when to light the engines to be a perfectly, you know, you've seen the Falcon nine land.
Yeah.
Where it's like screaming in last second license engines, what feels like way too late.
And it comes down and lands perfectly.
And by the way, do you know how many times they've landed a Falcon nine now?
No, just take a wild guess.
A hundred.
I think they're at over 550 or 580.
What?
580?
It's about every two to three days now.
Where do they land?
Most of them land out on drone ships, like five, 600 kilometers down range.
Some of them, if they're light enough payloads.
Drone ships.
Yeah, they have these big, they're called autonomous spaceport drone ships is what they call it, ASDS.