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Hot staging for Starship. (spacenews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by dotancohen to c/spacex

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It seems that Starship is going further into N1 territory with proposed hot staging. Thus, the second stage will light without the Falcon-9 style pusher piston nor ullage motors.

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[–] dotancohen 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder if this will enable some launch abort scenarios as well.

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