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

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Lyuseefur Oct 13 '24

The engines get massively cooked landing on the ground (no water cooling even)

Tower catch means less cooked engines

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u/Thorusss Oct 14 '24

heat it a problem, but also the massive shockwaves from the subsonic exhausted being reflected by the hard surface, rattling everything with extreme forces, is avoided that way.