| ▲ | ChuckMcM 17 hours ago | |
Sort of? Everything is weight. And since it isn't a design feature to lay down in water there isn't any weight budget for making that modality survivable? So typically when it falls (and this thing is really tall) the interior tanks detach from their mounts and hit the inside walls and rupture. The skin is still hot, oxygen and remaining fuel mix and it goes boom. This time we had fires but no boom. I look forward to hearing what was different. | ||
| ▲ | m4rtink 17 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Starship is quite a bit sturdier thanks to the stainless steel used & very efficient engines that make it possible to have the structure heavier. We had it demonstrated in the past with Starship surviving multiple burnthroughts and now in failing to explode. :-) | ||