They reassembled and checked everything down to every single bolt. With unmanned missions it does not matter I guess, if a rocket occationally explodes.
Reliability is still a huge concern as there is a risk to the public if Starship has issues at the wrong time.
During launch its relatively fine as you are flying into a designated safe zone, but since its designed to survive re-entry there is a much higher chance of parts surviving and hitting something on the ground. We already saw that with multiple of the Starship V2 flights.
The rocket can still explode while in space and parts of the rocket can reach the ground without burning up.
Thats not a big risk with rockets built mainly out of aluminium etc, but Starship with its stainless steel that can handle higher temperatures and its heat shield is more likely to reach the ground.
The 11 Starships that have gone through re-entry have so far had no issues with reaching their designated landing zone/spot in one piece (except from some minor parts melting off in their earlier V1/V2 flights).
So far SpaceX has shown that they are willing to play it very safe, but there is always a risk and their future re-entries will also do go over land like Flight 15 did.
The risk is minimal. Out of all the rockets that have exploded there has been exactly one case of a person being hit by debris in the US and it was fiber glass so they weren't even injured.
The reassembled and checked everything down to every single bolt because they were using too much fancy beading edge technology that was not reliable for reuse. Even if they connect the landing gear to the automatic system to make it unnamed, they would have to disassemble and reassemble each time. Reuse was a lie, or at least a poetic licence.
The motor had like 30 blades and a few of them developed cracks each time, so you have to open it, inspect each blade and replace the bad ones. IIRC Feynman was very afraid
one of them would break and cause another crew lost. Luckily it didn't happen, but they have a last chance in Artemis.
The metal encase of the solid rockets would get deformed in the splash, so they have to make them round again.
The heat shield has to be completely replaced by design.
During launch its relatively fine as you are flying into a designated safe zone, but since its designed to survive re-entry there is a much higher chance of parts surviving and hitting something on the ground. We already saw that with multiple of the Starship V2 flights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_cemetery
were these other craft not headed for Point Nemo? if not then wtf
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2019/10/31/ooops-whit...
The 11 Starships that have gone through re-entry have so far had no issues with reaching their designated landing zone/spot in one piece (except from some minor parts melting off in their earlier V1/V2 flights). So far SpaceX has shown that they are willing to play it very safe, but there is always a risk and their future re-entries will also do go over land like Flight 15 did.
The motor had like 30 blades and a few of them developed cracks each time, so you have to open it, inspect each blade and replace the bad ones. IIRC Feynman was very afraid one of them would break and cause another crew lost. Luckily it didn't happen, but they have a last chance in Artemis.
The metal encase of the solid rockets would get deformed in the splash, so they have to make them round again.
The heat shield has to be completely replaced by design.
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