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cryptonector 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

And they need to demo that the flaps hold up through re-entry with nominal, minimal damage, otherwise a permit for a plan involving re-entry over land (which is needed to catch the ship) would obviously not issue.

bryanlarsen 3 months ago [–]

They've addressed that in Block 2. Test 6 still flies block 1, so we won't see any substantive improvements on that until test 7.

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