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Those details could affect the heat flux and temperatures the material is exposed to. The two spacecraft have very different designs.
by HPsquared 2y ago
Those details could affect the heat flux and temperatures the material is exposed to. The two spacecraft have very different designs.
- cubefox 2y agoI guess one advantage of SpaceX compared to NASA is that the former are very trial and error based in their design, so they can iterate much more. NASA tends to design and plan everything in advance and only build it at the end. So when the Space Shuttle reusability didn't quite pan out, they couldn't easily change things up.