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Claim
The thermal protection system tiles are engineered to endure repeated launches and re-entries without significant degradation, while remaining lightweight and water-repellent.
Evidence
There are 16,001 tiles...
Reviews
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Reputation: 0Verdict: Challenges“Technically possibility and practical implementation are very different things.”
The available evidence does not support this being possible in a practical sense. Significantly decreasing turn around time, and improving margins for error seem to be highly possible given the survival of IFT11's upper stage having tiles missing in critical areas and surviving re-entry.
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