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Anonymous Fri Dec 18 23:33:49 2020 No.12482562 [View]
File: 1.15 MB, 720x1280, Elon Musk - Testing Starship heatshield hex tiles-1107378575924035584.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Retard here, am I correct in thinking the transpiration will happen in the gaps between the tiles? That would make it quite different from the cumbersome Shuttle design. Or did they give up on the idea?

From Elon's Twitter (March 2019):

>Q: Fascinating. Why hexagonal shape?
>A: No straight path for hot gas to accelerate through the gaps

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