Starting in 2013 and completing in 2019, the Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET) project has been working to mature a 3-D Woven Thermal Protection System (TPS) to Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6 to support future NASA missions to destinations with extreme entry environments such as Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and high-speed sample return missions to Earth. A key aspect of the project has been the building and testing of a 1-meter base diameter Engineering Test Unit (ETU) representative of what could be used for a Saturn probe. This paper provides a high-level overview of the HEEET project including manufacturing and testing of the ETU for structural model verification, establish system capability and verify manufacturing workmanship.


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    Title :

    Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET) Thermal Protection System (TPS)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Materials Science and Technology 2019 (MS&T19) ; 2019 ; Portland, Oregon, United States


    Publication date :

    2019-09-29


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English