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    9/2/2021 NASA tests a new heat shield featuring Spiderweave | New Scientist

    NASA tests a new heat shield featuring Spiderweave

    TECHNOLOGY
    25 August 2021
    By Gege Li

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    THIS spectacle captured at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, could
    have important ramifications for future space missions. The material in the photo might one
    day allow vehicles to safely enter the atmospheres of other planets without burning up, as
    well as free up more room inside spacecraft.

    Taken by photographer Patrick Viruel, the image shows a new type of fabric called
    Spiderweave being tested for NASA’s Adaptable, Deployable, Entry and Placement Technology
    (ADEPT), an entry system it has designed for galactic missions. Because planetary
    atmospheres can reach scorching temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius, ADEPT
    requires a heat shield made of a material that can withstand such extreme conditions without
    disintegrating or tearing apart.

    Unlike previously tested materials that were made by stitching together individual panels,
    Spiderweave is continuously woven into the heat shield’s fabric, making safe and efficient
    space travel to other planets by rovers, shuttles and other vehicles all the more likely.

    The ADEPT team found that Spiderweave fared well when exposed to a temperature of
    1500°C. It can also be compactly stored upon launch, which is useful for saving space for
    scientific payloads that researchers want to take to and from planets such as Mars.

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