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True but on the way down, two out of 15 Raptors didn't fire. And of course the Raptor on the Starship failed too.
by namirez 2y ago
True but on the way down, two out of 15 Raptors didn't fire. And of course the Raptor on the Starship failed too.
- decimalenough 2y agoThey could still recover and catch the booster precisely because they had that redundancy. For Starship, the spinning out of control was caused by four (!) out of 6 engines shutting off prematurely, from which they clearly could not recover.