During re-entry, Starship is going Mach ~20 (around 7km per second) and you get to see this video of the heat shields flaring in real time-ish

Crazy

During re-entry, Starship is going Mach ~20 (around 7km per second) and you get to see this video of the heat shields flaring in real time-ish

Crazy

https://x.com/drchriscombs/status/1768281468566974824?s=46

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I love that thanks to technology we can observe close-up heat shields, unbelievable 50 years ago.