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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He used an interesting way to describe the interstage I think. For hot-staging I've only seen the completely open structure with rods, arraged in triangular patterns, connecting the stages. I wouldn't have used the word "vent" to describe something like that, so I wonder if spacex is implementing it differently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That looks really cool, thanks for sharing!