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Starship Flight 4 milestones effect changes to Flight 5's Ship - NASASpaceFlight.com (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This happens because the air heats up so much due to friction that it forms into another state of matter called plasma

Can someone confirm this? I was told the plasma is caused by compression not by friction.

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 7 months ago

Yup, I think that's an oopsie by NSF.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Plasma's basically caused by heat right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Probably more technically energy. Think you can make plasma with accelerators. But energy is heat anyway basically. Not that I want to make myself out to be an expert because I'm absolutely not. I don't really know.