heat shield
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Streaks cover its heat shield, an indicator of the heat and forces that ripped across it as the vehicle powered back to Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The mission tested Orion's life-support and communication systems and gave engineers their first detailed look at how the heat shield performs on a lunar return.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
A top lieutenant of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg for more than 20 years, Bosworth’s outspokenness and hard-charging style have made him a magnet for controversy—and, at times, a useful heat shield for his billionaire boss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
The upper stage is to deploy a payload of 20 mock satellites and two "specially modified Starlink satellites" outfitted with cameras, which will analyze the spacecraft's heat shield.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
The retropack, it was hoped, would keep the potentially loose heat shield in place.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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