Maren Kahnert 🦊⚔❤
@marenkahnert · Jun 6, 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
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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.
08:54 PM · June 6, 2024 · 43.7K views
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