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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:27AM (#15903901)
> If the ship is decelerating, then the second stage moves slower than the first stage.

Only if you fire the next stage. Otherwise there will be only what little velocity difference was created by detachment itself.

> But even if this was true, the second stage would already be here.

Not if it was used to decelerate further :).

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