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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.



thank you!


Hotstaging was added quite late so they need to jettison in order to land, but it should be permanently integrated in the later variants.


interesting, thank you for the extra info




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