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Development of New Ablative Thermal Protection Systems (TPS)
by Bernard Laub

There has been little ablative TPS development work in the USA over the past 20+ years. NASA has already done the "easy" missions with materials (for the most part) developed over 30 years ago. However, NASA's ambitious exploration vision requires TPS innovations.
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