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None of what you’re saying happened. They had a heat shield on the capsule that failed testing, so they swapped out the interchangeable heat shield for one t
by happyopossum 7mo ago
None of what you’re saying happened.
They had a heat shield on the capsule that failed testing, so they swapped out the interchangeable heat shield for one that passed testing.
There was no entirely new design, there was no new material science, it was the same heat shield that the previous crewed capsules have used without the manufacturing defect.
- themafia 7mo ago> SpaceX's next Crew Dragon mission (Crew-5) will fly with a different, updated heat shield structure after a new composite substrate failed acceptance testing I don't know what "new" or "different" or "updated" or "structure" mean then anymore.
- wat10000 7mo agoLooking at other articles, nobody else mentions an updated structure. I think that was a misunderstanding. This was a manufacturing defect caught in testing and they used a different unit as a result.