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Interstage extension for hot gas venting added to enable Starship to turn on its engines while booster engines still firing!
SpaceX@SpaceX· Aug 18, 2023Vented interstage and heat shield installed atop Booster 9. Starship and Super Heavy are being upgraded to use a separation method called hot-staging, where Starship’s second stage engines will ignite to push the ship away from the booster
10:05 PM · August 18, 2023 · 19M views
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