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SpaceX changing Starship stage separation ahead of next launch (spacenews.com)
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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A ring section for Superheavy with an odd pattern of cutouts was spotted a while ago at Starbase and the SpaceX watchers speculated it was for hot-staging, turns out they were right.

Here's the model they came up with based off of that ring section:

superheavy with hot staging vents