Seawater Washed Starship’s Flaps Clean — And the Tiles Underneath Are Black
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#779SZ)
SpaceX Starship flight 13 shows white powder on the surface of the heat shield. The flaps that were in the water showed a lot of the powder washes off. The theory would be that there were some broken tiles and some tiles had plasma penetrations that cause some ablative damage. Most tiles are good. The ...