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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by ajross on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:17AM (#40597041)
I saw that too. And it must be; it strains reason to think there was some other piece of space junk at exactly the same place and speed.
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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by krunck on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:20AM (#40597083)
Of course. I just expected them to fall at the same rate.
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Re:Starship's Fourth Flight Test: Window Opens 07:00 AM Cent... by ajross on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:22AM (#40597098)
They did fall at the same rate, to very high precision. That booster was going like 2000 km/h! The delta is tiny, and likely down to the very low but non-zero aerodynamic accelerations that will differ between objects of different shapes and densities.
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