SpaceX’s first orbital-class Starship stretches ‘wings’ ahead of Raptor installation
Teslarati
OCTOBER 4, 2021
While they may look the part, Starship flaps aren’t wings and are specifically designed not to produce lift. However, significant crossrange performance is almost entirely irrelevant outside of Cold War paranoia like the kind that NASA let influence the Shuttle’s design to an ultimately catastrophic degree.
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