From the videos I’ve seen online when a rocket lift’s off the rocket boosters separate from the capsule. What are they and why do they separate?
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To add to what everyone else has said…
The goal of rockets is to accelerate a payload in a specific direction to a specific relative velocity.
Once a rocket has accelerated the payload as much as it can towards that goal, there’s no reason for it to stick around.
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