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A thing which can nearly get into orbit. It never quite reached it (probably intentionally). But more importantly, the recent Starship tests ran with no payload
by simiones 2y ago
A thing which can nearly get into orbit. It never quite reached it (probably intentionally). But more importantly, the recent Starship tests ran with no payload whatsoever, and they definitely didn't deploy anything into orbit.
- chgs 2y agoIt reached orbital velocity, just in a suborbital direction. Had they pointed it a different way it would have been in orbit.