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Polymatt’s Avcoat Recreation of Orion’s Skip-Entry Crackup Showcases a Heat Shield That Works by Failing

Chunks of Orion’s Avcoat came off Artemis I after splashdown, and the scare was real enough that a crewed flight sat in the hangar while investigators spent two years on the cause. Reentry heat itself was not the surprise. Skip entry was. Orion dipped, lifted, then came back in so the peak load would be […]