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Thermal Protection Test Bed Pathfinder Development ProjectIn order to increase thermal protection capabilities for future reentry vehicles, a method to obtain relevant test data is required. Although arc jet testing can be used to obtain some data on materials, the best method to obtain these data is to actually expose them to an atmospheric reentry. The overprediction of the Orion EFT-1 flight data is an example of how the ground test to flight traceability is not fully understood. The RED-Data small reentry capsule developed by Terminal Velocity Aerospace is critical to understanding this traceability. In order to begin to utilize this technology, ES3 needs to be ready to build and integrate heat shields onto the RED-Data vehicle. Using a heritage Shuttle tile material for the heat shield will both allow valuable insight into the environment that the RED-Data vehicle can provide and give ES3 the knowledge and capability to build and integrate future heat shields for this vehicle.

Document ID
20150009499
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Snapp, Cooper
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
June 4, 2015
Publication Date
May 19, 2015
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-33522
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 432938.09.30
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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