SpaceX’s next-generation upper-stage Starship spacecraft, which should soon fly on future flights, has been fully unveiled at the firm’s facilities in Texas. The Starship upper stage is the world’s first and only upper stage spacecraft capable of being reused, and the key to this capability is ensuring that the ship returns to Earth intact. On this front, several Starship tests have seen the upper stage’s forward grid fins catch fire, and the new ship will rectify this by ensuring that vulnerable regions point away from the fast and hot air that flows around them during atmospheric reentry. SpaceX’s Next Generation […]
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