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SpaceX's Starship Landing Manoeuvre
SpaceX's Starship flips on its belly flops to land. The idea is when you're falling through the atmosphere, the atmosphere could actually do a lot of work for you. SpaceX realized if we flip this thing on its side and let it fall like a skydiver almost, instead of like pencil diving into the pool, you're belly flopping. You're maximizing the amount of surface area in the wind stream that's being slowed down.