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idlewordstoday at 4:12 AM1 replyview on HN

The Orion heat shield is sixteen feet across. NASA's test facilities can only test small material samples in these facilities, not capture how the entire heat shield will behave.


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sillysaurusxtoday at 4:35 AM

How does SpaceX test it? Have they needed to solve this problem?

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