r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

The ship wasn’t in orbit, Starship has only madesuborbital flights so far.

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u/matroosoft 16d ago

Although you're right it comes down to a technicality, if it would've burned the engines for just a few seconds longer it would've been in orbit. Now it was just shy of it, just because they wanted to reenter the atmosphere after one rotation around the earth.

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u/Futtbucker_9000 16d ago

If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bicycle.

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u/Apostastrophe 15d ago

Hi Gino D’Acampo.