splashdown
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As with a handful of previous missions that have experimented with first-stage reuse, the Electron booster made a controlled splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Rocket Report: Clipper to fly on used Falcon boosters, BE-4 may slip further|Eric Berger|November 19, 2021|Ars TechnicaThe company has been implementing a new atmospheric reentry and ocean splashdown process that uses a parachute to slow the booster’s descent, but the ultimate goal is to catch it in the air using a helicopter.
Peter Beck on Rocket Lab’s public listing debut, space SPACs and the Neutron rocket|Aria Alamalhodaei|August 25, 2021|TechCrunchSpaceX said that the flight “will be carefully monitored at every step by SpaceX mission control” and will end in a splashdown off the Florida coast.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announces a spaceflight intended to raise money for St. Jude hospital|Christian Davenport|February 1, 2021|Washington PostMarci jumped a foot out of the water, and her splashdown sent watery ripples rebounding off the cavern walls.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town|Cory Doctorow
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Land in water, as in The spacecraft splashed down within a few hundred yards of the pickup point. The splash in this idiom alludes to the impact of a solid body on water. [c. 1960]