From: jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com   
      
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   jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca says...   
   >   
   > Additional question:   
   >   
   > With Starship having tiles just one one side, I assume rthere will be   
   > uneven weight of frost around it.   IS asymetrical weight handled   
   > automatically by the software based on IMUs and having engines   
   > guimballed to compensate, or is that something they would have to   
   > actively add to the software ?   
      
   That tiny bit of asymmetry is easily countered by the flight control   
   system and the Raptors that gimbal.   
      
   You want asymmetry?  Look at the space shuttle!  Same thing, engines   
   that gimbal.  But they were using 1970s computers to control the thing.   
      
   Jeff   
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