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SpaceX Starship New Heat Shield Tiles, Virgin Galactic Success & Wally Funk to fly to Space - YouTube
How do the Crew Dragon's PICA heat shield tiles compare to the ones used on the space shuttles? - Quora
According to Musk's announcement, the heat shield for Starship will have ceramic tiles in high heating areas, but isn't this very similar to the thermal solution used in the Space Shuttle orbiter? -
Starship heat shield tiles look very thin compared to space shuttle heat tiles. Do you have some information on how they are built? - Quora
![Pauline Acalin on Twitter: "A few of Starship's ceramic prototype heat shield tiles were placed on the upper reentry edge of Dragon's heat shield during the CRS-18 mission. Hopefully we will be Pauline Acalin on Twitter: "A few of Starship's ceramic prototype heat shield tiles were placed on the upper reentry edge of Dragon's heat shield during the CRS-18 mission. Hopefully we will be](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDKJ1NAUEAARKjG.jpg)