Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Sep 27, 2021
How’re the titles gonna stay on during ascent? I’m still a little surprised nature didn’t have the right idea and do the tiles more like scales. On ascent there’d be less room for aerodynamic forces to rip them off and it’d allow for expansion and contraction of the steel
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
If tiles are not super thin, you get hot plasma “waterfalling” off edges of tiles, creating hotspots.
That said, I’m not entirely convinced that this couldn’t be done with several overlapping scales of metal sheet with an insulator between scale armor & primary structure.
11:45 PM · September 27, 2021 · 0 views
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