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   Niklas Holsti to Alain Fournier   
   Re: Starship IFT-3   
   17 Mar 24 09:46:21   
   
   From: niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid   
      
   On 2024-03-15 1:36, Alain Fournier wrote:   
      
   > Actually, I think I prefer attitude control problems. If the destruction   
   > of the ship was due to insufficient thermal protection or something like   
   > that, it could signal a hard to solve problem. But I think that we will   
   > all agree that SpaceX will be able to solve attitude control. Not that   
   > it is necessarily very easy to solve, just that they did it for their   
   > Falcon rocket, so there is no reason to believe they can't do it for   
   > Starship.   
      
      
   There is an eX-Twitter video with a 3D reconstruction of the ship's   
   attitude (rather, attitudes) during the re-entry. This link was   
   originally posted on the Amateur Rocketry mailing list:   
      
   https://twitter.com/pockn_cg/status/1769057806022492396   
      
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