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Advanced Ceramics Laboratory SPACE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

Advanced Ceramics Laboratory SPACE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS. RASTAS SPEAR Earth-return capsule for the Marco Polo mission will encounter tremendous heating on its return through the atmosphere at 45000km/hour. RASTAS SPEAR: Expected trajectory and heat flux of earth return capsule.

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Advanced Ceramics Laboratory SPACE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

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  1. Advanced Ceramics Laboratory SPACE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

  2. RASTAS SPEAR Earth-return capsule for the Marco Polo mission will encounter tremendous heating on its return through the atmosphere at 45000km/hour

  3. RASTAS SPEAR: Expected trajectory and heat flux of earth return capsule

  4. RASTAS SPEAR Demonstrator Heat Shield - “Made in Greece”

  5. RASTAS SPEAR Demonstrator Heat Shield with regolith sample sphere

  6. RASTAS SPEAR: Plasma jet test at CIRA/Scirocco at 5MW/m2 and 4Mach jet

  7. PULCHER New small positioning rockets for satellites, probes and space stations

  8. PULCHER: mini rockets based on the Bombardier Beetle!

  9. PULCHER: Bipropellant rocket from the Apollo programme Combustion chamber is the narrow grey part in the middle The Pulcher rocket will be similar

  10. PULCHER: Bipropellant rocket Ceramic fibre-Ceramic matrix Combustion chamber S. Schmidt et al, Acta Astronautica 55 (2004) 409 – 420

  11. COSMIC SHIELD Protection against Galactic Cosmic Rays

  12. COSMIC SHIELD: Particle shower in the atmosphere created by a Galactic Cosmic Rays

  13. COSMIC SHIELD: All human missions will require shielding against Galactic Cosmic Rays

  14. COSMIC SHIELD: Human bases require shielding against Galactic Cosmic Rays

  15. Incident high energy charged particles HDPE (nCH2) matrix (with hydrides, not shown) Anisotropic MNP’s COSMIC SHIELD: New nano-magnet composite material shield against Galactic Cosmic Rays

  16. HybridTPS A ceramic-ablator composite Thermal Protection System SHS MgO + spinel + Phenolic ablator Hybrid TPS

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