Hybrid reentry system reduces Starship’s heat flux by 50%!
For several months, I’ve been exploring solutions to improve the heat shield tiles on SpaceX’s Starship, discussing ideas with Grok-3. Ultimately, I concluded that my lack of specialized education limited my ability to advance tile design, so I paused my efforts until a new avenue emerged. Recently, discussions on X highlighted a contrast: Blue Origin’s capsule, which carried passengers on a suborbital flight, showed no reentry scorch marks, while SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, which returned stranded astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS), did. The reason is clear: Blue Origin’s capsule travels straight up and down, while Dragon…