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Elon Musk Reveals HUGE Solution for Starship Heat Tile! Flight 5 Launch Schedule...
Clearly, SpaceX's Starship is facing challenges with its heat shield, particularly the heat-dissipating tiles that protect it during reentry. However, with Elon Musk's determined attitude, he certainly won't let this hinder his ambitions. Recently, Elon Musk revealed impressive technical solutions to address the heat shield issue.
Let’s find out on today’s episode of Alpha Tech: How did Elon Musk SpaceX fix the Starship heat shield and re-entry?
Elon Musk Reveals HUGE Solution for Starship Heat Tile! Flight 5 Launch Schedule...
In engineering, a heat shield is a component designed to protect an object or operator from burning or overheating by dissipating, reflecting, or absorbing heat. Therefore, no spacecraft can re-enter Earth's atmosphere without a heat shield. It is also a crucial component of SpaceX and Elon Musk's ambition of fully reusable rockets.
With the impressive performance in the fourth launch, we observed instability with the heat shields, specifically a weak point between the flap and the main body of the Starship. This vulnerability nearly compromised the spacecraft, as the intense heat during re-entry caused considerable damage to the flap. Despite this, Starship remarkably managed to complete its landing burn with the flap still functioning, demonstrating the spacecraft's robust design and resilience.
Elon Musk Reveals HUGE Solution for Starship Heat Tile! Flight 5 Launch Schedule...
But not to keep us worried about the issue of heat shields for long, SpaceX and Elon Musk have been striving to improve the heat shielding capabilities of their reusable Starship.
And indeed, they are being carried out right on Ship 30 in preparation for the launch of Starship Flight 5.
The first solution proposed by SpaceX and Elon Musk is to replace the entire heat shield with new tiles that are twice as durable as the previous ones.
“We have to take, we're gonna replace the whole heat shield on the ship. So the new heat shield tile is about twice as strong as the ones that were on the last flight,” shared Musk.
The new tiles are “about twice as strong, or hopefully half as likely to crack or come off.”
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26 сен 2024