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Six-Engine static fire of Ship 25 (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/spacex
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[–] few 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like perhaps a dozen fell off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IS there better video to count tiles? But judging by integrated test failing tiles is not a big problem now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The leaked photos of the flight test ship before breakup didn't show many tiles missing, so it's still possible that the static fire environment is harsher, at least for vibrations, than the actual flight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For missing tiles, there was a before and after picture posted in the Starship dev thread:

https://lemmy.world/comment/589873