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Ejected pieces: an airframe that comes apart at any joint, or lets a payload out, and the pieces that fly on to their own landings.
A Separation parts the stack at a stage boundary. An Ejection parts it anywhere else:
at the joint aft of any body component (a nose cone pushed off its airframe, say), or around a
payload carried inside (an internal component and everything inside it). Each has a trigger, as
a recovery device does. The pieces are fixed before the flight by where the airframe can part.
At any moment a body is the pieces still joined, and its mass is the sum of theirs (the
decision record on ejected pieces, ADR-085, which extends the one on separation,
ADR-014).
Method: docs/physics/recovery.md, Ejected pieces.
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- Ejection
- A piece of the airframe leaving the rest on a trigger: the airframe parts at a joint, or lets a payload out.