Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 8, 2019
Rocket booster temperatures won’t go much above 600 Kelvin on hottest parts of main body & maybe around 1200K on base, which uncooled steel can handle. Starship is around 1700K for a Mach 25 entry, so needs shielding of some kind.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Technically, the steel is radiatively cooled (not uncooled). T^4 is one of the most interesting things about reality!
04:45 PM · February 8, 2019 · 0 views
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