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Episode 225: DATA RELAY--Hot Structures


This week in SF history

— August 30, 1931. Birth of Jack Swigert (wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1914: You know what might have killed Swigert….

Spaceflight news

— Uncrewed Soyuz aborts docking. (spacenews.com)

— Second attempt delayed to free up a new docking port. (twitter.com/roscosmos)

Short & Sweet

— Astrobotic chooses ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to deliver its lunar lander (astrobotic.com)

— Sierra-Nevada selects ULA. (spacenews.com)

— Europa Clipper passes Key Decision Point-C (arstechnica.com)

Data Relay—Hot Structures

— Thanks to Ben Crews for researching and presenting this topic! (linkedin.com)

— X-15 Hardware Design Challenges (PDF: nasa.gov)

— NASA solicitation for research on hot structures (sbir.gov)

— Multifunctional Hot Structure (HOST) Heat Shield (techbriefs.com)

— Heat Shield Concepts and Materials for Reentry Vehicles (includes some familiar lifting-body vehicle form proposals!) (PDF: dtic.mil)

— Advances in Hot Structure Development (Brief with link to PDF: nasa.gov)

— Thermal-Structural Optimization of Integrated Tanks for RLV (embedded PDF: aiaa.org)

— Tim Dodd’s discussion on Starship transpiration cooling (youtube.com)

/— u/spacerfirstclass speculates on Spaceship’s use of hot structures. (reddit.com/r/spacex)


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 August 28, 2019  52m