Elon Musk discussed SpaceX's upcoming Starship launch, emphasizing the importance of data collection from high-temperature re-entry conditions to refine tile designs. He mentioned ongoing experiments with various fabrication techniques and highlighted past issues with engine explosions. Musk stated there is approximately an 80% likelihood of having resolved these issues but noted that further design iterations are crucial. Overall, Musk sees advancements in SpaceX’s transportation system to Mars as gateways to vast opportunities in the future of space exploration.
The most important thing is data on how to improve the tile design, so it's basically data during the high heating, re-entry phase... We've got like a dozen or more tile experiments.
I feel like we've got an 80 to—I don't want to tempt fate, I was going to say 90—but we've got about an 80 percent chance of having solved those issues.
These launches are all about data. We want to make sure that we've solved the issues that caused the explosions in the last two flights...
Once you have the transportation system to Mars, then there's a vast set of opportunities.
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