It fails to mention either ablative panels or active cooling, neither of which are exactly original ideas.
-p
At 12:08 AM 2/7/2003 -0800, Sean Lynch wrote:
Thought this must have been posted to the list before, but I can't find it in the archives:<http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Research/CMI/RLVsource/> My favorite is in the TPS comparison table where the maintenance requirements for ceramic tiles are listed as "shoot yourself." It seems like if you want a maintainable TPS you're best staying in temperature ranges that felt and ceramic blankets can handle. Does anyone know if the "single skip" sort of reentry Gerald mentioned would make such a thing doable?
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