{"id":88940,"date":"2019-03-26T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-steel-starship-glows-during-earth-reentry-in-first-high-quality-render"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:42:26","slug":"spacexs-steel-starship-glows-during-earth-reentry-in-first-high-quality-render","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-steel-starship-glows-during-earth-reentry-in-first-high-quality-render","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s steel Starship glows during Earth reentry in first high-quality render"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtWzuZ6WZ8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has silently published the first known detailed render of its new stainless steel Starship\u2019s design on the cover of Popular Mechanic\u2019s April 2019 issue, showing the next-generation orbital spacecraft reentering Earth\u2019s atmosphere in a blaze of glowing metal and plasma.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the render seems to only be available in print and then only through one particular news outlet, Teslarati has acquired a partial-resolution copy of the image to share the latest official glimpse of SpaceX\u2019s Starship with those who lack the means, access, or interest to purchase a magazine. Matters of accessibility aside, SpaceX\u2019s updated render offers a spectacular view of Starship\u2019s exotic metallic heat shield in action, superheating the atmosphere around it to form a veil of plasma around the spacecraft\u2019s hull. According to CEO Elon Musk, the hottest parts of Starship\u2019s skin will be reinforced with hexagonal tiles of steel and transpiration cooling, a largely unproven technology that SpaceX is already in the process of testing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-official-render\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-official-render\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has silently published the first known detailed render of its new stainless steel Starship\u2019s design on the cover of Popular Mechanic\u2019s April 2019 issue, showing the next-generation orbital spacecraft reentering Earth\u2019s atmosphere in a blaze of glowing metal and plasma. Despite the fact that the render seems to only be available in print and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}