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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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.
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They're made of of stainless steel with ceramic heat shield tiles. It looks like by the end of it the fin survived after shedding all its head shield tiles.