Umbrella Heat Shield Makes Heavy Payloads to Mars Possible

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Channel: CoconutScienceLab · 2018 · Science & Technology

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More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - NASA’s Adaptable Deployable Entry Placement Technology, or ADEPT, is a foldable device that opens to make a round, rigid heat shield, called an aeroshell. 

This game-changing technology could squeeze a heat shield into a rocket with a diameter larger than the rocket itself. The design may someday deliver much larger payloads to planetary surfaces than is currently possible. 

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Credit: NASA Ames Research Center

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