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Real Martians Moment: Orion’s Thermal Protection System
NASA,Jared Vander Kam,Orion Thermal Protection System,TPS,Ames Research Center
Jeremy Vander Kam works as the Orion Thermal Protection System (TPS) manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Orion’s TPS or heat shield is the largest ablative heat shield ever made and is vital technology to helping astronauts safely return to Earth after a Mars mission. At Ames, lots of Arc Jet testing is conducted with very small samples of the ablative material to evaluate how they’ll do on reentry into the earth’s atmosphere. The Orion TPS group is excited about playing such a huge role in this next giant leap NASA is taking by sending humans to Mars and, most importantly safely returning them home.
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É biscoito ou bolacha?
Very interesting. What is the plan to getting the crew out of the martian surface and back? I’ve been wondering about it.
o dólar em marte é quatro reais também?
lets go to MARS!!!
nice video. good effort
How different is the Orion heat shield, to the Apollo heat shield?
What gains have been made in the development of the Orion heat shield over the Apollo era heat shields?
Has there been a cost/benefit analysis done on the Orion heat shield research, against gains achieved?