r/BeAmazed • u/No-Lock216 • 3h ago

Technology Well that was cool 😮

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u/Half4sleep 2h ago

I too wanted to see both left and right, as I noticed you did, OP. Glad you followed the left one in the end tho.

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u/nobodyfkncares 2h ago

What was shooting to the right?

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u/hardrocker112 1h ago

The rocket's made up of two stages. The booster, or stage one, and the smaller stage two with the payload on its top.

The first stage can flip around, retroburn, and land either back on land or autonomously station-keeping barges. This first stage is what's moving to the right. The second stage keeps burning until it's eventually in orbit and can release the payload(s).