News about SpaceX's Starship

Starship made a controlled reentry, successfully making it through the phases of peak heating and max aerodynamic pressure and demonstrating the ability to control the vehicle using its flaps while descending through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds pic.twitter.com/p8bC9UweLx

Starship’s fourth flight test launched with ambitious goals, attempting to go farther than any previous test before and begin demonstrating capabilities central to return and reuse of Starship and Super Heavy. The payload for this test was the data. Starship delivered →… pic.twitter.com/tP0QL3eEOd

If you want a detailed explanation of why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel pic.twitter.com/pXC0ngheiw

Why is Starship made of stainless steel? This article from 5 years ago explains the reasons. Worth noting that the ship would have failed on reentry if made of aluminum or carbon fiber, as they can’t take the heat. www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/