We're not talking about the kind of system where you just turn on the rockets and it'll probably work okay here. Propulsive landing based on running 8 rockets is gonna take a ton of highly tested hardware and software, including speed and orientation sensors etc and all the software to balance things out perfectly.
No way they're adding in a big pile of extra untested software and hardware for an unlikely event. NASA would never approve, and correctly so, as that would be a massive number of extra things to potentially go wrong.
No way they're adding in a big pile of extra untested software and hardware for an unlikely event. NASA would never approve, and correctly so, as that would be a massive number of extra things to potentially go wrong.