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interesting that the visible deformation started at 01:56am and the test continued until full failure 10 minutes later https://youtu.be/kkqgkccWKYI?t=130 http
by trhway 7y ago
interesting that the visible deformation started at 01:56am and the test continued until full failure 10 minutes later
https://youtu.be/kkqgkccWKYI?t=130 https://youtu.be/kkqgkccWKYI?t=130
While i've happened to be wrong anytime i've questioned Musk's decisions/approach, looking at that and the previous pressure test failure and how the body crumples, i wonder whether the way the Starship body is built isn't faulty by design - like all this steel plates horizontally oriented.
Of course, fast and cheap is the only way to get to build hundreds of Starship, the Liberty ship of our time, yet the current structural design of the body seems to require re-work.
- lutorm 7y agoAll rockets are thin metal cylinders. How do you mean this is faulty by design when it's fundamentally like any other rocket?