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The transpiration-cooled system sweats to cool hypersonic missiles.
Credit: Canopy Aerospace
Canopy Aerospace has been awarded a $2.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to speed up commercialization of two thermal protection systems for hypersonic and reentry vehicles. The Denver-based startup is developing a “transpiration-cooled” thermal protection system and an optical-fiber...
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