Insulation tiles need to be researched and replaced as soon as possible with reusable materials that are more heat-resistant and can withstand multiple flights. If the insulating tiles have to be replaced for every flight, it will be difficult to reduce costs and commercialize them.
High Atmospheric temperatures caused the burning of the flap??? If thats the case why doesnt everything in space burn up? I think it could have been caused by the friction of re entering earths atmosphere?
there is no friction in the first part of reentry, the problem is the hot plasma bubble around the ship created by the compressed air, at that velocity and altitude is like a very hot layer of plasma around the ship but there is no friction. You can notice that by looking at the flow of the air that is almost perfect laminar
Colonization will not happen until the boosters can land without needing to be caught... The heat shield is for atmosphere entry only by the way..... errmm where is that needed 🤔... oh that right Earth! Already colonised buddy 😂😂😂
I think this heat tile analysis is weak, if not just dead wrong. Any sort of ablative heat shielding is an admission of failure because these rockets are supposed to be quickly reusable. Granted, where a tile that falls off, but the ablative layer behind it comes to the rescue, the rocket is saved, but the rocket has failed in its purpose. Instead, here's what appears is really going on. Elon has a better heat shield in the works, but it is not ready at this point, possibly because not enough of the new tiles have been made. My guess is that the main improvement in those tiles is that they are simply thicker. That means they are heavier, which is something they've been trying to avoid, but the thinner tiles just weren't doing the trick, which is NOT one falling off. So rather than wait until those new heat tiles are ready, and since he probably has a ton load of current heat tiles lying around, this ablative material is a temporary solution. He can still go one with other tests such as landing the first stage on Mechazilla with the chopsticks. Now if for some reason, with the ablative material, not one heat tiles falls off, they may reconsider using the next generation tile. Last, why didn't you mention that NASA went to the emergency room after this news?
Why don’t they use NoMex as a gap filler. It’s a fireproof material. It seems like a waste of time to put felt on a space ship exterior that is going to see extreme temperatures. That will burn off and possibly compromise the adhesion of the actual heat shielding tiles. NoMex would mitigate both of those problems.
The problem with the linear one step at a time method, is you can go down paths a long ways before you run into a dead end. This wastes time and money... Much better to be like water over dry ground as Sun Tsu put it, be attacking the problem with a least parts count possible common denominator. And exploring like tendrils on multiple paths. I dont think tiles will do the required job reliably, ever. That was a Space Shuttle crew killer. So, the question becomes, when will they quit cobbling on more krapp trying to make tiles work, and try a simpler solution? Other solutions have been suggested... Sure would hate for project Starship to stagnate... Might be good for competitors, if they know to not attempt tiles... Perhaps Starship's footnote in history might be the project that led other companies to better concepts... Bizarre part, is if you had a super gun launching fuel mix into orbit, you could refuel the ships, and bring them down on retro rockets reducing relative orbital velocity to zero.... tiles etc. wouldnt be an issue...
LOL ! ..... Mental Musk says , " The Best Part is No Part ! " .... as he doubles the most numerous Parts on the BF Starship.......... What a Lunatic ! ......
