Use the same event pair already made simultaneous in the rear instantaneous rest frame. Its proper spatial separation is the Minkowski interval length, so
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The inequality selects the front rocket rather than the equally long backward extension. Equivalently the Lorentz-transformed spatial difference obeys . This is not the condition at equal laboratory times, which would describe the stretching arrangement in a.

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