Orion Flight-Test Reentry Temperatures Cooler Than Expected
Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Designers reworking the Avcoat heat shield for NASA’s Orion crew capsule to beef it up for a trip around the Moon in 2018 have a new data point—reentry temperatures on the vehicle’s first flight test were almost 500F cooler than expected. That is exactly the type of information the Dec. 5, 2014...
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