Stoke Aerospace:
Advantages of a regeneratively cooled heat shield:
"One of the hardest problems of second-stage reusability is the heat shield. We designed ours to be incredibly durable, so it can be rapidly reused, again and again."
Article: https://www.stokespace.com/building-rockets-to-fly-and-fly-again/
Future civilizations across the Solar System may remember Elon Musk for thousands of years.
Women’s Rights is a huge genetic bottleneck, a major evolutionary selection event.
Traits that are strongly selected in favor are those of rule breaking and unconventional habits:
- Those willing to kill US soldiers and kill police.
- The typical criminal.
- The prolific sperm bank donor.
- Those who hide, or flee from feminist government.
- The traveling Chad that knocks up women in random places.
Ship 33, the 1st V2 Starship upper stage slated for orbital velocity test flight (IFT-7). Note that the propellant tanks are much larger.
The flatter EDOME bulkheads allow more of the tank to be filled, and minimizes the top bulkhead's height in the payload section. Unlike V1, the propellant in V2 fills the whole cylinder section of the tanks.