Re-creating NASA’s Heat Shield Problem

After the Orion capsule of the Artemis I lunar mission returned to Earth, it was found that massive chunks of its heatshield had been ripped off, posing a serious risk to any future missions. In a recent video in which [polymatt] takes a break from repairing old laptop shells and the like, he tries to recreate the Orion’s heatshield using a variety of methods and materials. For this test a number of samples were created, each using the same kind of segmented structure as the larger Orion heatshi