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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by natch on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:32PM (#26007907)
The atmosphere on Mars is not as thick as ours so there might be an issue with that winged glider vision. And then there is the moon...
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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by m4rtink on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:49PM (#26009240)
Both have much weaker gravity though.
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Re:Starship – SN9 – High-Altitude Flight Test by natch on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:33AM (#26023752)
But that doesn’t help when you have zero atmosphere. Zero times anything is still zero. And doesn’t help enough when the atmosphere is too thin.
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