A hot staging thing [Daily Hopper]
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(Slight misspelling noted: Asterix is a French comic book character. *Asterisk* is likely the intended word)
The Gaul?
Yes!
so what was the part?
Hot staging ring, which gets dumped after stage separation. It is a somewhat inconsequential part and won’t be jettisoned in future versions of Starship.
It’s the spleen of the starship?
They should have designed this thing in KSP to test it out first, then they’d realize they can change timing slightly and not have to drop it at all.
SMH my head SpaceX engineers 1000% outsmarted by a video game
Someone tracked it until splashdown, so by using the camera angle and landmarks they can pinpoint the exact position it fell in and fish it out, it was pretty close to shore!
and fish it out
It appears that SpaceX have sent HOS Ridgewind to do exactly that: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14548731 (see “Maritime” section)
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