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“The metal tiles … it’s not working so well,” he said. “Openly pleased Ocmunisan in the high feed of oxygen. Therefore, that beautiful orange color, type as a (space) The external tank of the nore The color, maybe you pay homes to the shuttle program, it was created by those three small metal tiles on top. ‘

GerstenEniver has a talent to explain complex technical concepts in a digestible manner. Began his career as a daring engineer in the spacedmale’s spaced program to NASA in 1977 to the space hip to the human, 2020.

The experiment with the metal tiles is emblematic of the Spacex Mode develops stars. Company engineers move quickly to make changes and integrates new drawings in each test flight. Metallic heat tiles are not a new technology. NASA tried it on laborators in the 1970s but they never flew.

“And p pt sorry we have learned a lot of flight, and we’ve always had the submitted protection that they did not cause a problem,” he said the gerstenermaier. “In most tiles, there are a big enough gap, and that is what we see the heat through and get below.”

A Starship’s heat shield mastery is vital for the program’s future. The heat shield should be durable by star to be quickly reusable. Eyes Musk refusing Starships in 24 hours.

NASA OF NASA WEIGHT RECEIVED about 24,000 Delicate Ceramic circles to protects by the furniture and materials were printed and damaged and stamps. The Dragon Capsule of the SpaceX has a reusable structure that the shield of heat, but the heat material is used only once.

For Starship, Spacex needs a heat shield of the fenced vibes during the launch of launch of the launch of the ship of the ship “Unique” engineering for the Starship Program.

Continuing their presentation, gerstenermaier plunge a white patch at the top of the Starship’s shield of Starship. She said, it’s said, it was caused by the heat in tiles and eroding the underlying materials, a subtracent barrier from the ship’s sharing shield. Technicians also intentionally removed some tiles near the Starship nose to test the vehicle response.

“It’s essentially a white material you put up, and when the ablate is creates this white waste,” Gerstenaier told me. “So that’s showing there is that we’re heat whether you get in that thick, and this ablative structure gives you below. So we need to bury the tiles.”

The primary structure for Starship is made of a special steel league. Most of the other ships spaced for the reinstate, as the shuttle of space and the dragon, are made of aluminum. The taller’s taller point of the Steel Stirship More Lost of Warm Shield Damage that Shuttle.