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Amazing to see how well this spaceship survived. First-ever soft splashdown that left Starship intact & floating, allowing close-up inspection of the heat shield tiles after the wicked heat of reentry. Onwards to catch it next time - congrats to the whole team SpaceX !

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Starship’s heat shield is one of the most advanced reusable tiles systems flying today Starship uses ~18,000 standardized hexagonal ceramic tiles on its windward side - minimizing unique parts and simplifying mass production The tiles are silica-based ceramics with a high-emissivity black coating, designed to survive extreme re-entry heat while radiating energy away Unlike the Space Shuttle, Starship’s tiles are mechanically pinned, not bonded.... allowing thermal expansion, fast replacement, and far better robustness The entire system is engineered for rapid reuse with minimal refurbishment, a requirement for high-flight-rate, fully reusable spacecraft The rockets that SpaceX is building are fully reusable Starships. When they re-enter Earth's atmosphere, they endure temperatures hotter than molten lava To handle this, the SpaceX team engineered a custom heat shield system SpaceX is building hundreds of Starships in parallel. This flap is getting its tiles installed right now
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