>>13691520>if it was just the one next to the vent then no big deal. i'll just say if all the studs are like that, that's not enough safety margin for launch loads or max-qI want to say that the outer edges of the tiled areas are still under design because there isn't enough real data to simulate the tiles through the entire flight profile.
The tiles that did come off did so because the vent force was from the underside of the tile. When the valve opened, the force was able to rush underneath the tiles, and they are engineered to withstand forces from outside.
That being said, Max-Q will probably not be nice to the current edges of the tiles. But again, rapid iteration and revisions are major highlights for SpaceX. I expect this test will give them a fair amount of data to build tiles that will cleanly terminate the edges.
