SpaceX has solved Starship’s biggest challenge, Elon Musk says
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SpaceX's Starship heat shield, made of roughly 18,000 ceramic tiles, has long been its biggest obstacle to rapid reusability. Flight 13 on July 24, 2026 provided the breakthrough, with tiles surviving a deliberately stressful reentry, prompting Musk to declare the heat shield problem effectively solved.
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