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Spacex team’s Starship partially melts during renterty of test flight 4, makes soft splash down anyway. (youtu.be)

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Evidently the joints on the flaps still need a little work into not letting gases through, but it seemed to still have enough actuation to keep the spacecraft stable until the engines took over for the landing burn.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I actually was wondering if CFD would even apply for plasma. It kind of behaves weirdly and not like a liquid at all.

There's also the fact that even if they could simulate all of that there's no way they would be able to simulate it to a high enough resolution that the "plasma" would find its way into that hinge joint. So any data it came up with would be useless anyway.