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Originally Posted by photon
I guess we'll see if they think the burn through at the flap was due to the tiles they left off intentionally or if it's a design issue. I've always thought it'd be super difficult to insulate a moving part like that that's directly in the path of reentry.
Interesting stuff.
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The fins look like they had a kind of honeycomb structure coated in carbon fibre. But I would have thought carbon fibre couldn't handle the prolonged high temps. And their is no way I'm smarter than these people, they are literally rocket scientists. So I'm curious what they used, and why they thought it would survive.