See an inflatable heat shield work in re-entry test animation

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See an inflatable heat shield work in re-entry test animation

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Space.com

1 Views • Nov 01, 2022

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See NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) in this flight test animation. it will be "demonstrating a cross-cutting aeroshell -- a type of heat shield -- for atmospheric re-entry," according to NASA.

Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center