I haven’t heard any news on active cooling systems recently. Is thermal protection the biggest hurdle? The ships on flights 4 through 6 all survived to splashdown.
At the moment, the bigger issue seems to be whatever vibrations/oscillations caused the destruction of the ships on flights 7 and 8 before they reached orbit.
Either way, I’m looking forward to the next flight test.
I haven’t heard anything for a while and I was just asking for an update if anyone knows anything.
It seemed to me they changed something to cause those vibrations/oscillations so to fix it they could just change it back. Like to me it seems solvable.
But in regards to the reusability of the heat shield, I haven’t heard of any progress? So wouldn’t it still be regarded as the biggest issue?
I’m ready for another starship test! Maybe mid may
Hopefully we get another improvement on this one. They need to nail the thermal protection, hope it isn’t insurmountable.
Any news on active cooling systems or is that once everything else fails?
I haven’t heard any news on active cooling systems recently. Is thermal protection the biggest hurdle? The ships on flights 4 through 6 all survived to splashdown.
At the moment, the bigger issue seems to be whatever vibrations/oscillations caused the destruction of the ships on flights 7 and 8 before they reached orbit.
Either way, I’m looking forward to the next flight test.
But they didn’t survive intact did they?
I haven’t heard anything for a while and I was just asking for an update if anyone knows anything.
It seemed to me they changed something to cause those vibrations/oscillations so to fix it they could just change it back. Like to me it seems solvable.
But in regards to the reusability of the heat shield, I haven’t heard of any progress? So wouldn’t it still be regarded as the biggest issue?