Seawater Washed Starship’s Flaps Clean — And the Tiles Underneath Are Black
SpaceX Starship flight 13 shows white powder on the surface of the heat shield. The flaps that were in the water showed a lot of the powder washes off. The theory would be that there were some broken tiles and some tiles had plasma penetrations that cause some ablative damage.…
bubmagJuly 28, 2026