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namirez | 1 year ago

True but on the way down, two out of 15 Raptors didn't fire. And of course the Raptor on the Starship failed too.

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decimalenough|1 year ago

They could still recover and catch the booster precisely because they had that redundancy.

For Starship, the spinning out of control was caused by four (!) out of 6 engines shutting off prematurely, from which they clearly could not recover.