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Maren Kahnert 🦊⚔❤
Maren Kahnert 🦊⚔❤
@marenkahnert · 6. Juni 2024
"Ultimately, we decided to have heat shield hexagonal tiles, ceramic tiles, basically like a tiny glass vermicelli at a microstructure level. Very light, but very crack resistant essentially glass tiles." Starship Presentation 2019
Maren Kahnert 🦊⚔❤
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
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Yes. I should note that we have since moved to a proprietary stainless steel alloy, developed internally, as 301 in plate form had interlaminar toughness issues at cryogenic temperatures.
20:54 · 6. Juni 2024 · 43.668 Aufrufe
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