Ablation (Latin: ablatio – removal) is the removal or destruction of something from an object by vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other...

be better design choices: SLA in SLA-561V stands for super light-weight ablator. SLA-561V is a proprietary ablative made by Lockheed Martin that has been...

slightly curved heat shield on the bottom consists of "21mm to 28mm thick ablator (glass-phenolic composite) which is held by brackets approximately 15mm...

Silicone Impregnated Refractory Ceramic Ablator, or SIRCA, is a lightweight ceramic ablative material, often used in thermal protection systems to protect...

a system logic chipset introduced in 1993 Phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator, a spacecraft heat shield material Pre-integrated COF APM, part of the...

using a quartz fiber reinforced resin. The first use of a super-light ablator (SLA) for spacecraft purposes was for the Viking Landers in 1976. SLA would...

heatshields are made of C-PICA (Conformal Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator), a thermal protection material produced by NASA Ames Research Center....

in-flight anomaly that was corrected with the planned improvement for the SRB ablator.: 127  For STS-107, Columbia carried the SpaceHab Research Double Module...

heat shield for the rover was made out of phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator (PICA), to allow it to withstand up to 2,400 °F (1,320 °C) of heat. Like...

carry four astronauts. After extensive study, NASA selected the Avcoat ablator system to provide heat protection encountered during reentry for the Orion...