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Additionally, the center core is throttled to make sure the vehicle safely gets through the dangerous "max-Q" part of the launch where stress from the atmospher
by pleo__ 4y ago
Additionally, the center core is throttled to make sure the vehicle safely gets through the dangerous "max-Q" part of the launch where stress from the atmospheric drag is highest.
- pfdietz 4y agoMakes sense. They throttle even on the F9 for that reason, and the FH is essentially three F9s with an upper stage that is not the mass of 3 F9 upper stages.