Image: Second-generation titanium grid fins, Iridium-2 Mission (35533873795)
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Description: Closeup of SpaceX second-generation grid fins--now larger, made of forged titanium, and not coated with any thermal ablative coating that had been used on the earlier aluminum grid fins--first test flown on the Iridium-2 mission in June 2017.
Title: Second-generation titanium grid fins, Iridium-2 Mission (35533873795)
Credit: Iridium-2 Mission
Author: SpaceX
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