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Vincent Thacker
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inIn the 80's, they looked into using an air spike for just this purpose. it It was basically a plasma cutter mounted on a pole. You You may have noticed that elonElon Musk does this now with the falconFalcon 9 on its re entry-entry burn. he It dissipates the hyper-sonic bow wave and encapsulates the rocket in relatively cold exhaust gas.

in the 80's they looked into using an air spike for just this purpose. it was basically a plasma cutter mounted on a pole. You may have noticed that elon does this now with the falcon 9 on re entry burn. he dissipates the hyper-sonic bow wave and encapsulates the rocket in relatively cold exhaust gas.

In the 80's, they looked into using an air spike for just this purpose. It was basically a plasma cutter mounted on a pole. You may have noticed that Elon Musk does this now with the Falcon 9 on its re-entry burn. It dissipates the hyper-sonic bow wave and encapsulates the rocket in relatively cold exhaust gas.

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in the 80's they looked into using an air spike for just this purpose. it was basically a plasma cutter mounted on a pole. You may have noticed that elon does this now with the falcon 9 on re entry burn. he dissipates the hyper-sonic bow wave and encapsulates the rocket in relatively cold exhaust gas.