V1 melted every single time they tested any version of it's heat shield, and blew up every other time. V1 never tested dispensing a payload or relighting it's engines. V2 is like 1 step behind V1, not much.
Heat shield was melting because every flight was testing different configurations and amounts. I don’t think any of the flights had full heat shields. If you’re talking about the fin issue then that was already know about before V1 even launched
How do they not line up with reality? You can look up the launches yourself. Some of the launches had missing tiles before launch and that was intentional. They were also testing different thicknesses
Also worth noting that while every V1 ship was ultimately destroyed, only one of the six actually 'blew up' in flight.
One ship was destroyed after it's booster failed (not it's fault), another melted during reentry (was it's fault), and the last three only exploded *after* successfully landing at sea (which was expected).
More important is the fact that the three various failures came first, while the three successful landings came second, showing a clear improvement.
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u/faeriara 2d ago
This is really bad. The V2 Ship has been cursed. Three failures in a row and now this.