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You'd still need the barge to bring back the booster, plus the tug to pull the barge (and now a crane to transfer the booster from a fixed platform to the barge at sea). Not much benefit to stick a platform in the ocean when the barge serves that purpose sufficiently.

Edit: I'm unsure if you'd want to waste an engine firing on a boostback to the launchpad. Way above my domain knowledge though.



At least until they start refueling and flying back.


> You'd still need the barge to bring back the booster...

Nah. Automated refueling, then send it back to land via a little suborbital hop.




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