Why aren’t heat shield tiles on rockets and space shhuttles white since white paint reflects heat better?

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Why aren’t heat shield tiles on rockets and space shhuttles white since white paint reflects heat better?

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White reflects *light* better, but the heat there isn’t coming from bright light, it’s coming from the compression of the air in front of the shuttle.

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