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What's interesting here is the difference: Soyuz uses a 'suicide burn' that releases a ton of delta-V in a short amount of time. From the video, it seems that
by tomswartz07 12y ago
What's interesting here is the difference:
Soyuz uses a 'suicide burn' that releases a ton of delta-V in a short amount of time.
From the video, it seems that Falcon uses a progressive burn as it approaches. They also mention that they can restart it up to 3 times in atmosphere.
- rspeed 12y agoThe third burn here is also a suicide burn. The first one is to change its path and the second is to prevent it from falling too fast.