The control of the satellites end-of-life including deorbiting and atmospheric entry as well as
the investigation of orbital maneuvers for new space missions confer a growing importance …

Fiber-reinforced aerogel composites (FACs) can be applied to the thermal protection system
of aerospace vehicles, but the ablative recession is unsatisfactory. We report a novel quartz …

In the early days of space exploration, the development of thermal protection systems for
reentry vehicles was mainly based on an experimental approach, both for design of …

Early in the development of the Mars Science Laboratory thermal protection system on the
heatshield, project management planned to use Lockheed Martin's Super Light Ablator in …

The processing, microstructure and ablative properties of novel phenolic impregnated 3-D
Fine-woven pierced carbon fabric ablator (PICA) with different bulk density were …

Carbon/phenolic ablators are successfully used as thermal protection material for
spacecraft. Nevertheless, their complex thermal degradation is not yet fully understood, and …

One of the major drivers of heat transfer within a spacecraft heatshield is the effective
thermal conductivity of the thermal protection material. For carbon-based thermal protection …

THE design of the ablating heat shield for NASA's Orion crew module requires the accurate
prediction of the shock-layer radiative and convective heating. The ablating heat shield …

The optimal design of a three-dimensional thermal protection structure is urgent for the
current hypersonic vehicles. A designed gradient woven material composed of fabric and …

Vehicles entering planetary atmospheres at high speed require an ablative heat shield to
withstand the high thermal energy flux to the body. The interaction between the ablative …