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Everyday Astronaut — Why Deleting A Grid Fin on Super Heavy Is Clever

Summary by nebula.tv
Perhaps one of the strangest and most obvious changes to SpaceX’s latest Starship, or Version 3, is the fact that the super heavy booster now only has 3 grid fins instead of 4. This makes the rocket look asymmetrical and honestly just kind of weird. But as strange as it looks, the reason they did this is actually quite genius.
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nebula.tv broke the news on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
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