SpaceX's Starship New Heat Tiles & Welding Just Humiliated NASA Shuttle!
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SpaceX's Starship New Heat Tiles & Welding Just Humiliated NASA Shuttle!
There's a lot of emotion today, but one thing's indisputable: America's not going to stop exploring.
"Thank you Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour, and our ship Atlantis. Thank you for protecting us and for bringing this program to such a fitting end."
This is a share of Atlantis/STS-135 commander Chris Ferguson, as they closed out the 30-year career of the Space Shuttle Program on this day 13 years ago.
The end of the program marked Nasa's big failure to the reusable type of vehicle, specifically creating a reliable and rapidly reusable thermal protection system.
SpaceX's Starship New Heat Tiles & Welding Just Humiliated NASA Shuttle!
Fast forward to now, when Elon Musk tries to build Starship, a fully and rapidly reusable rocket like an aircraft, he also ran into the same trouble with the heat shield.
However, he is always confident that he can solve the problem much better than Nasa.
So, what did Elon Musk learn from Nasa's mistakes to improve his system?
Find out everything in today's Techmap episode.
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SpaceX's Starship New Heat Tiles & Welding Just Humiliated NASA Shuttle!
SpaceX's rapid success seems to be something surreal.
Donald Trump highlighted that in his presentation on July 20:
"Three years ago I’m watching TV and I see this rocket come down landing. No wings no nothing; It’s landing on a barge in the middle of the ocean; I’ve never seen that before. If that were government you wouldn’t see that for another 50-100 years.”
Why can SpaceX do that?
To be fair, one of many secrets is to stand on the shoulders of giants. Nasa's mistakes and failures have left the successor with many precious lessons, including “think outside the box”.
Most notable are the lessons from Nasa's Space Shuttle project, particularly the problems with its Thermal protection system (TPS). It's safe to say that not by chance, the agency finally had to cancel the program even though originally, they expected that it could be a game changer. The failure to create reliable and rapidly reusable heat shields was a key driver of Nasa's decision.
Elon Musk also doesn’t deny the technical challenges in producing and perfecting TPS. As he said in an interview with Everyday Astronaut.
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