Avcoat

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Avcoat is an ablative heat shield material originally developed for NASA’s Apollo program and later used on the Orion spacecraft to protect it during high-speed atmospheric reentry.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ablative heat shield material
thermal protection system material
appliedTo spacecraft heat shield
designedFor high-speed atmospheric reentry
developedBy NASA NERFINISHED
developedFor Earth reentry from lunar return velocities
crewed lunar missions
era Apollo era
Orion era
hasProperty ablative
erosion-resistant under reentry heating
high-temperature resistant
sacrificial
single-use
partOf Apollo command module heat shield NERFINISHED
Orion crew module heat shield
protects crew module interior
spacecraft structure
protectsFrom aerodynamic heating
extreme reentry temperatures
plasma heating
reintroducedFor Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle NERFINISHED
usedBy NASA NERFINISHED
usedFor aerothermal heating protection
atmospheric reentry protection
thermal protection
usedIn Apollo program NERFINISHED
usedInMissionType crewed spaceflight
deep-space reentry missions
lunar return missions
usedOn Apollo command module NERFINISHED
Orion spacecraft NERFINISHED
usedOnBody Earth reentry trajectories
worksBy ablation
carrying away heat with eroding material
material charring and erosion

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