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Comment on SpaceX Heat Shield System Economics Are Not a Dead End by scott baker
['Brian Wang']
Comments for NextBigFuture.com
SpaceX can achieve daily flight turnaround even with imperfect tiles.
SpaceX Starship metal structure and ablative layers means a single lost tile in most places does not lose the ship.
Complete tile inspection will be hours max to see if a tile or a section of tiles are good.
Replacing 50 Shuttle tiles per launch was $300k for the materials.
Per tile costs will go from Space Shuttle $6000 to todays $200 per tile and will get to $10 per tile.