Early NASA missions (Gemini, Apollo, Mars Viking) employed new ablative TPS that were tailored for the entry environment. After 40 years, heritage ablative TPS materials using Viking or Pathfinder era materials are at or near their performance limits and will be inadequate for future exploration missions. Significant advances in TPS materials technology are needed in order to enable any subsequent human exploration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit. This poster summarizes some recent progress at NASA in developing families of advanced rigid/conformable and flexible ablators that could potentially be used for thermal protection in planetary entry missions. In particular the effort focuses technologies required to land heavy (approx.40 metric ton) masses on Mars to facilitate future exploration plans.


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    Titel :

    Advanced Ablative TPS


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    International Planetary Probe Workshop 8 ; 2011 ; Portsmouth, VA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-07-06


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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