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Re:Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever lan... by dotnet00 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:18PM (#40600641)
Reminiscent of the booster in IFT-1 just doing spins in the air, refusing to break up even after the flight termination system was triggered. Completely unlike KSP with its wobbly rockets.
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Re:Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever lan... by aeternum on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:06PM (#40602421)
A KSP with more realistic physics would just be amazing. Unfortunately from the KSP2 vids it looks like they instead doubled-down on wobblyness.
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