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Old 19th November 2023 | 01:49
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The Sultan
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The initial analysis from Scott Manley:


The BIG problem I see in his report is the massive failure of the heat protection system. The Starship was shedding large sections before staging. That magnitude of damage points to a fundamental problem which will require a completely new approach to attaching the tiles before they try again. In Elon time that will take two months which translates into an Earth time of at least a year.

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