Performance of a low density ablative heat shield material

37th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Covington, M A ^a   Heinemann, J M ^a   Goldstein, H E ^b   Chen, Y K ^c   Terrazas Salinas, I ^c   Balboni, J A ^c   Olejniczak, J ^c   Martinez, E R ^c  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHERMIC PROCESS; IMPREGNATED CARBONS; INTERNAL TEMPERATURE; MATERIAL TEMPERATURE; SAMPLE RETURN CAPSULE; STARDUST SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY;

ABLATIVE MATERIALS; DESIGN; HEATING RATE;

HEAT SHIELDING;

EID: 84897586316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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