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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by kevinmhickey on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:57AM (#41828558)
It’s the hot staging spacing ring. They didn’t call it on the feed but it is an expendable part that ejects after separation.
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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by nebben64 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:32AM (#41828865)
thank you!
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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by Alex-Programs on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:35PM (#41829367)
Hotstaging was added quite late so they need to jettison in order to land, but it should be permanently integrated in the later variants.
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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by nebben64 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:27PM (#41830808)
interesting, thank you for the extra info
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