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SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
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SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
Starship comes home at over 16,000 miles per hour. That's 22 times the speed of sound. And somewhere in that plunge back to Earth, the outside of the ship hits temperatures close to 3,000°C. That's hot enough to melt steel, vaporize most metals, and destroy almost anything humans have ever built to fly.
And yet, a few weeks ago, Starship splashed down so gently in the Indian Ocean that it just... floated there. SpaceX recently released a unique set of images showing an up-close look at the heat shield after it endured that brutal journey from the sky all the way down to the ocean, while Ship 40 sat in the calm waters near Christmas Island. Take a close look at those photos for a second. Aside from a few areas worn down by seawater, the heat shield actually looks in pretty good shape.
SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
After SpaceX's engineers finished studying it, Ship 40 was loaded onto a semi-submersible vessel to begin a months-long journey back to Starbase. That journey is a challenge in itself — but the real story is what it reveals about the heat shield's evolution after Flight 12.
So how do you bring something back from the edge of destruction, again and again, without rebuilding it every time?
SpaceX found a trick. And once you see it, rocket landings won't look the same.
SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
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0:00 Ship 40 update
1:19 How Starship Survives Reentry
3:43 Heat Shield Problem
5:01 Why Apollo's Shield Won't Work
6:38 How SpaceX Solved It
7:29 Why Reusability Changes Everything
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SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
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#alphatech
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#spacex
#elonmusk
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SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
Starship comes home at over 16,000 miles per hour. That's 22 times the speed of sound. And somewhere in that plunge back to Earth, the outside of the ship hits temperatures close to 3,000°C. That's hot enough to melt steel, vaporize most metals, and destroy almost anything humans have ever built to fly.
And yet, a few weeks ago, Starship splashed down so gently in the Indian Ocean that it just... floated there. SpaceX recently released a unique set of images showing an up-close look at the heat shield after it endured that brutal journey from the sky all the way down to the ocean, while Ship 40 sat in the calm waters near Christmas Island. Take a close look at those photos for a second. Aside from a few areas worn down by seawater, the heat shield actually looks in pretty good shape.
SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
After SpaceX's engineers finished studying it, Ship 40 was loaded onto a semi-submersible vessel to begin a months-long journey back to Starbase. That journey is a challenge in itself — but the real story is what it reveals about the heat shield's evolution after Flight 12.
So how do you bring something back from the edge of destruction, again and again, without rebuilding it every time?
SpaceX found a trick. And once you see it, rocket landings won't look the same.
SpaceX just Found a NEW Trick to Reduce the Risk of Starship's 3,000°C Deorbit!
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0:00 Ship 40 update
1:19 How Starship Survives Reentry
3:43 Heat Shield Problem
5:01 Why Apollo's Shield Won't Work
6:38 How SpaceX Solved It
7:29 Why Reusability Changes Everything
Everyday Astronaut twitter.com/Erdayastronaut
youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut
Alexander Svan twitter.com/AlexSvanArt
youtube.com/channel/UCFtAc_KRuj4mrr0bVMZMn2w
C-bass Productions youtube.com/c/CbassProductions
Clarence365 twitter.com/Clarence3652
youtube.com/channel/UCFNWI5f4uM2sYGdfk9-WM4A
Evan Karen youtube.com/channel/UCDN1X8Fz1oAXX-rBcOWjzmg
RyanHansenSpace twitter.com/RyanHansenSpace
youtube.com/c/RyanHansenSpace
iamVisual youtube.com/@iamVisualVFX/videos
SpacexVision youtube.com/c/SpaceXvision
TijnM twitter.com/m_tijn
youtube.com/channel/UCDA8yz_nQY-0Uxd96-qxYjA
WindowsTheHorse https://x.com/WindowsTheHorse
Starship Gazer https://x.com/StarshipGazer
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