Starship Flight 7 UPDATE - Stage 2 (Launch Vehicle) is still LOST. Superheavy booster was successfully caught. Standby for updates. (storage.science.social)
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Starship Flight 7 UPDATE - Stage 2 (Launch Vehicle) is still LOST. Superheavy booster was successfully caught. Standby for updates.

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adespoton@lemmy.ca on 17 Jan 02:07 collapse

The company put a number of different heat tiles on the ship, to test which offer the best protection from the forces of re-entry.

I guess they’ll have a harder time collecting them all post-RUD.