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Comment by modeless | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]modeless · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:53 UTC · link
Yeah, I'm eagerly awaiting results from inspection of the heat shield (which hopefully they will disclose). Reflight without refurbishment is the last goal they need to hit before the system can be considered a success. After that, optimizing for increased payload and nailing reliability will be the things to work on. And of course orbital refueling for HLS.
[−]ACCount39 · 2026-11-14 Sat 23:30 UTC · link
They already recovered a ship from that one time they accidentally landed one in the ocean. SpaceX got to have a lot of heatshield endurance data by now.
[−]pettijohn · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:21 UTC · link
And they attached one of those used tiles to the ship that just landed. Second flight tile data is going to be huge.