Starship Flight 12 will deploy 22 Starlink simulators including two inspector craft that will image the ship’s heat shield in flight, testing how SpaceX will spot missing ...

Starship Flight 12 deploys "inspector" satellites to scan its heat shield. See how SpaceX is testing a critical path to rapid ...
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Two camera satellites SpaceX released in flight just beamed back the first live photos of Starship’s heat shield baking during reentry

For the first time, we have an outsider’s view of what Starship endures on the way home. Two small camera satellites, ...
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Artemis II's last test: Will its heat shield work?

The uncrewed Artemis I came back with unexpected charring on the spacecraft's heat shield. This is an artist's imagining of that reentry. NASA/Liam Yanulis When Artemis II comes blazing back through ...
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NASA craft to face heat-shield test on its first astronaut flight next year

Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth ...
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Artemis II's last test: Will its heat shield work?

When Artemis II comes blazing back through the Earth’s atmosphere, it will be traveling at around 25,000 miles per hour and reach temperatures up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The only thing protecting ...