Like Jeff Bezo’s… Uhh… Rocket… Don’t rockets need “fins” or “wings” to help stabilize or something?
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They do have relatively small stabilizer fins. The ones on Bezos’s New Shepard rocket are small, but they’re definitely still there. Also, a lot of the(suborbital) maneuvering and stabilization of rockets is done with engine gimballing, where the rocket engine physically swivels a few degrees to offset the thrust, especially once the atmosphere gets thin at high altitudes.
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