The short version
The internet watched the fireball. The engineering read is narrower: did the tiles stay on, and did the flaps hold attitude through the hot part of entry?
That is the whole briefing.
What was new
- A denser tile pattern on the most abused windward patches
- Catch hardware rehearsed as a procedure, not a stunt
- Less experimental plumbing on the engines that have already flown
What was not new
Entry heating is still unforgiving. Missing tiles on a stainless steel body are not automatically fatal — steel is the backup — but every missing tile is a factory problem dressed up as a flight problem.
A test that looks messy can still be a clean data point. A pretty flight that teaches nothing is the expensive one.
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