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Can you tell me what country does not launch their rockets in this manner, other than in test flights?
by VictorPath 4y ago
Can you tell me what country does not launch their rockets in this manner, other than in test flights?
- shortstuffsushi 4y agoPer the article > Typically, the core stages of similar rockets that reach orbit fire their engines again after releasing their payloads. That allows them to be aimed at unpopulated areas, like the middle of an ocean, when they fall from orbit. If this is not accurate, my mistake. I took them at their word and don't really know anything more than that about the process.
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- dotnet00 4y agoThese days the standard behavior of other nations is to keep enough reserve fuel and power to perform a controlled reentry of any spent stages or to design the vehicles such that the part that reaches orbit is small.