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Starship maintaining tank pressure during reentry and landing
Starship relies on tank pressure to gain it's full structural strength.
During reentry, the tank walls heat up, causing the ullage gas to heat up, causing pressure to rise. How will Starship prevent ...
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How is hot staging of Starship expected to provide such a large (10%) increase in total mass to LEO?
there's a meaningful payload to orbit advantage with hot staging that is conservatively about a 10% increase
(Elon Musk during Twitter Spaces interview on June 24th, 2023, timestamp 37:13)
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How will Starship get ullage during launch?
All the Starship air-starts up to this point have been landing burns using small header tanks which gave less ullage requirements, but I can't recall any mention of how Starship settle it's propellant ...
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Starship deorbit process
It does not seem to me that SpaceX will use thrusters similar to Draco to deorbit Starship, and I think firing a Raptor would be too powerful. All I can imagine is that it will use ullage gases ...
