Henry Spencer wrote: > It also doubles as insulation. The downside is that you get to worry a > fair bit about its mechanical properties; the incredibly tedious process > of filling honeycomb with little squirts of ablator
Did all of the US "capsule" spacecraft use that particular heat shield construction? > was because the > ablator itself wasn't mechanically strong and might not stay put under > stress. I don't know if this is accurate, but I've heard references to Soviet construction of ablative shields from dense wood. -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
