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> My hot take was that they skydiver maneuver and landing flip would be the hardest part for starship. I mostly agree with this. I put both the landing flip m
by ncallaway 6y ago
> My hot take was that they skydiver maneuver and landing flip would be the hardest part for starship.
I mostly agree with this.
I put both the landing flip maneuver and the heat-shield system on about the same level of difficulty for Starship.
I think they've worked through the hinkiest bits of the landing flip with SN10 (though with some raptor relight stability being potentially a long-ish tail of improving).
I'm curious to see how their heat-shielding mechanism works out. If they can built a heat shield system that works for orbital re-entry and is rapidly refurbishable, I'll be very happy that Starship will be able to meet the extreme goals SpaceX has created for it.
- nickik 6y agoSurprisingly the delay actually happened because of the structures. Not the landing. It took them way longer then anybody thought to produce the large tanks. If you look at timeline when they started in Boca, they thought they could do hops way sooner.