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Yosemite_Sam1
Nov 23, 2019Explorer
stsmark wrote:
306 Cold Rolled Stainless sheet in 11ga. (.120) thickness, which is the thickness they are using within .002. Weighs 5.050 lb per square foot.
On the Starship they’re trading the weight for heat resistance on reentry. It’s probably a wash when you back out the weight of a thermal treatment for a different metal.
Somebody asked about the dash and it’s actually molded paper.
Musk called it exoskeleton. I suspect it is also engineered to hold the structural integrity of the car.
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