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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 11 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plasma's basically caused by heat right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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.