Re: Mars Polar Landing

From: francois (prototype@solid-concepts.com.au)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 05:53:33 EET


Had a thought!!! Did NASA do the imperial to metric conversion... !!!!!!
Maybe an abacus would help!

Adrian

Frank Niebling wrote:

> > I hear the heat shield was made on an SLA (just kidding)
> > Bob Morton
> > Fusion Engineering
>
> Hello,
> about the material you aren't totally wrong with your joke. In earlier
> times NASA used some kind of epoxy for the heat shield. Plastics
> have a low thermal conductivity, so only the outer exposed surface
> of the heat shield vapourises and the heat isn't conducted to the
> inside.
>
> But:
> Probably the landing gear was made on an SLA...
> (Please don't tell me now something about the good damping
> abilities of plastics)
>
> Bye,
> Frank
>
> Dipl.-Ing. Frank Niebling
>
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