SpaceX Heat Shield System Economics Are Not a Dead End
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#77BJX)
SpaceX can achieve daily flight turnaround even with imperfect tiles. The shuttle's problem was not just that the tiles were expensive. But one bad tile would cause loss of the vehicle. SpaceX Starship metal structure and ablative layers means a single lost tile in most places does not lose the ship. Starship tolerant to losing ...