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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel

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Controlling a Starship Rocket

The Starship has these big flaps. You have to rotate in the air. Huge. And as you also highlight, there's liquid fuel sloshing around in the tank. So like you can't use that fuel directly after another kind of fuel. Plus, the actual maneuver is difficult from the like, like, what are the thrusts that actually make all that happen?You're adding a lot of complexity, not a lot, but you're complexity to the maneuver and possibility where failure could happen for some reason.

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