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For those who don't care enough to watch the full event, here's the updated concept animation:
The main thing we learned from this whole deal is that it's gonna have two flaps (and two on the top) rather than three fins. It'll enter the atmosphere kind of like a flyer in a wing suit and use the flaps to kind of belly flop into the drag to slow it down. The extra "fin" would just be wasted weight on the back there, so they nixed it. The legs will be a completely separate system now.
Hoping for a 20km hop for the prototype in 1-2 months.
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