[Starlink] some post Starship launch thoughts
David Lang
david at lang.hm
Wed Apr 26 23:44:07 EDT 2023
On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, Rodney W. Grimes via Starlink wrote:
> Now that water cooled steel plate, if you treat it like a sacrificial
> anode in a water heater, ie you expect it to be erroded over time it
> could get interesting.
They are designing towards hourly launches, so I don't expect it to be planned
as a wear item. The way it was introduced (prior to the launch) was that even
steel plate would wear if it wasn't water cooled.
David Lang
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