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kevinmhickey
8 months ago
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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video...
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.
nebben64
8 months ago
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thank you!
Alex-Programs
8 months ago
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Hotstaging was added quite late so they need to jettison in order to land, but it should be permanently integrated in the later variants.
nebben64
8 months ago
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interesting, thank you for the extra info
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