alt Hacker News> a heat shield named Pridwen after the legendary shield of King Arthur will be deployed to protect the spacecraft from the intense temperatures it will experience as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
Why bring back the entire spacecraft and not just the finished product?
I'm also curious how they handle cooling the silicon, since dissipating heat in space is kind of difficult.
Harder engineering to separate the components? Making the oven + crystal formation work is probably maxing out their novelty budget without trying to make the craft partially disassemble.
Plus, they can study the oven after the process which is likely to be helpful if the entire experiment poops the bed.