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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: Atmosphere at time of Falcon separat    |
|    07 Jun 21 03:55:46    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              on 6/6/2021, Sylvia Else supposed :       > On 07-Jun-21 11:51 am, JF Mezei wrote:       >> Sanity check:       >>       >> At time of first stage separation for Falcon 9 and lighting of stage 2,       >> we can see the foil "blanket" that is higher up from the engine bell on       >> stage 2 move.       >>       >> Is this movement due to wind at that altitude/speed (about 100km) or       >> just the blanket moving due to ship accelerating?       >>       >>       >       > Effect of changing acceleration (as the fuel is depleted) in combination with       > vibration.              I figured it was a side effect of pressurizing the feed lines.              Does that engine gimbal or do they depend only on thrusters for 2nd       stage guidance?              /dps              --       "That’s where I end with this kind of conversation: Language is       crucial, and yet not the answer."        Jonathan Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist,       Stanford.,2020              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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