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And you see how the boosters are rotating their tips TOWARD the rest of the rocket? If the seperatrons were postioned above the decoupler and not below it they'd provide even better and safer effect because the tips of those boosters would be rotating outward, not in. If the decouplers were postiioned further towards the tip of the booster the seperatrons might not be necessary. Take another look at that second screeshot that IronSides posted. If something about your design prevents you from moving the position of the decoupler then use the seperatrons to add additional raw force during seperation, or to at least get the part that's impacting your craft to rotate away. That way when you fire it, the force will tend to "kick" the top of the booster just a bit more than the bottom, so that as it's pushed away in general by the decoupler it won't rotate as much, or if it does then the top end - which is almost certainly what's hitting - will rotate AWAY from the rest of your craft as it falls behind. If you can, position the decoupler higher up - at or actually just above the mid-point of the length of the booster (Ideally just above the _booster's_ center of mass I think). If the decoupler is positioned low then it will "kick" more at the bottom end of the booster and the top end of the booster will tend to rotate INTO your craft. The issue is that when you fire the decoupler the booster wants to start to rotate, partly because of where the decoupler is positioned and partly because it's now independently affected by the atmosphere. You may not need seperatrons to solve the problem.
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