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Starship has demonstrated increasingly controlled atmospheric reentry, but surviving reentry is not the same as achieving rapid, low-maintenance reuse. This paper examines Starship's heat shield, the flight-test evidence through Flight 13, Shuttle-era lessons, non-TPS bottlenecks and the economics required for aircraft-like operations.