Starship Reentry Animation
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jrt_ms1995
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I was so afraid this thread was going to be about the crappy band.
glhs837
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I fully expect that we will lose 3-5 of these as they figure this sequence out. But at that they will do it a helluva a lot faster than Old Space can. And that's not a bad reflection of OS's engineers, but rather companies that have spent 50 years making space a feeding bag, not a place to innovate at speed.
glhs837
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Thats going to be an interesting thing to see, what happens if you lose a tile or two. Keep in mind, the steel can take the heat, unlike the materials that normally back up such tiles. So losing one or two might not be the catastrophe that it otherwise might be. The main purpose of the tiles to prevent heat from cooking what's inside the can. The tiles are back with an insulation blanket, and are mounted on standoffs. Of course, with rapid fire iterative test, things are subject to change. You can be damn sure they'll do everything they can to get reentry footage. The most recent test with SN15 tested a Starlink dish on the backside of the rocket, intended to keep coms open during the reentry. They also showed a camera mounted in the flap end. I imagine the orbital test article, SN20 riding on Booster #2 (supposed to be August, most folks expect December if it happens this year) will have cameras on all four flaps and other locations around the body.