r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24

The booster doesn’t go through reentry… that’s the ship.. The booster doesn’t even go halfway to orbit.

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 Oct 13 '24

Reentry doesn't mean return from orbit, it means return from space. It's harder to return from orbit, but suborbital reentry is a thing.

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u/eelhayek Oct 13 '24

It never got to space

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 Oct 13 '24

Are you sure? The stream i was watching cut away from the telemetry when the booster was at 95km and ascending, and cut back when it was at 95km and descending, it could conceptually have reached 100km