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duped • yesterday at 8:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> If you've seen their rocket landing videos the technology is quite similar in nature.

Sure but Tesla is not SpaceX.


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computerdork • yesterday at 9:02 PM

Well, the first thought is that they borrowed the thrust technology and software from spacex. This makes sense, because in starship, they used to have a lot of pneumatic powered actuators for things like thrust vectoring control, then they switched to electric motors, because they are instaneously responsive for one thing (and I think more reliable as they aren't fluid based). From what remember, they originally used electric motors from Tesla, so makes sense that Telsa would in turn borrow from Spacex.

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