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A comment on Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry. Parent comment

Re:Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry by isolli on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:57AM (#40521252)
Not to mention that 2 out of 5 Space Shuttles suffered catastrophic loss, one of them (Columbia) almost certainly because it was being reused and the heat shield failed.
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Re:Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry by tekla on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:10AM (#40523928)
Columbia didn't fail because of heat shield reuse. It failed because a chunk of foam crashed into a important part of the heat shield at high speed and created a big hole.
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