SpaceX has officially stacked and de-stacked a Starship using the Mechazilla tower. This was an amazing showcase of months of work and engineering coming to fruition. While the lift of Starship S20 was taking place I noticed something interesting take happen around 12:36:42 CST on the NASASpaceFlight live stream. I matched the video between LabPadre's Rover 2.0 camera and NASASpaceFlight and got a different view of what was happing. The ship exhibited a tilting motion that I believed to be impossible based on my understanding of the tower mechanisms. A closer look revealed this cleaver design by SpaceX engineers that I had completely overlooked before. I have showcased the operation of this new mechanism theory in this animation. While this isn't 100% confirmed, as getting photos of these components is next to impossible at the resolution needed, it is very likely that this is the answer to how the ship was able to tilt as seen in the live streams.

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I am working hard at creating every major component of the Mechazilla tower so that I can produce a one-stop-shop animation covering all the mechanisms and their operation. Expect this in the coming weeks!

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