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I heard "Stage 1 FTS has been saved" and shortly after, "Stage 2 FTS has been saved".

Not sure what FTS means but hopefully its capture was a success!



FTS means flight termination system. Meaning the thing that blows it up if it goes off course and is going to crash into people. They were saying "safed" not "saved", meaning, no longer armed.


Ah, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense!


She said "Stage 1 FTS has been safed".

FTS is the flight termination system. I believe that is a self destruct mechanism in case things go very wrong. They arm it before liftoff and disable it after it's well over the ocean.


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And the commentator doesn't comment or speculate anything about it. Really odd.


Same as last time - we didn't hear anything more about the first stage until much later.


Safed.

Meaning switched off from being armed.




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