** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

Interesting if true. The move to improve performance from V1 Starship, which for all it's weakness on re-entry damage was seemingly resilient with regards to the engine operation, has introduced a weakness in the engine connections. But given there was a previously resilient if non-optimal solution one assumes this can be corrected it's more a matter of how quickly.
 
There’s a photo going round (unsure of veracity) which shows that when SpaceX said they’d lost an engine, they really meant it…

 
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