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Spacex team’s Starship partially melts during renterty of test flight 4, makes soft splash down anyway. (youtu.be)
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Evidently the joints on the flaps still need a little work into not letting gases through, but it seemed to still have enough actuation to keep the spacecraft stable until the engines took over for the landing burn.

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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Honestly, I started laughing my head off when I saw that ragged flap still moving and the Starship still maintaining attitude control with it. That's the sort of battle damage I expect to see in a science fiction show, I wasn't expecting SpaceX to bring that sort of thing into the real world too.

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