ablative

People have proposed making ablative heat shields out of wood, for heaven's sake.

I guess smoke/mist, active surface cooling and ablative armour.

I think the term is an ablative and/or autologous bone marrow transplant.

Why use a glass thermal \n protection system, rather than a low-tech ablative shield?

The syntax is structurally the same, we just add the word "from" instead of adding the ablative case ending.

A material with twice the melting point of tantalum halfnium carbide sounds like an ablative heat shield to me.

If you allow a "suit" to get bulky enough, an ablative heat shield in one is well within the realm of existing materials science.

It's already passed through the ablative portion of its entry, and is falling at terminal velocity.

It also has ablative properties and resists flame propagation.

My favorite part was how you can realistically suggest using diamond ablative layers and the like.

If you have two, and if they counter-rotate, they cancel each other out.> For an alternative, I've heard some good things about laser ablative thrusters.

They for example talked a lot about recovering their rockets, and none of that has worked at all. They changed from ablative to regenerative cooling.

The best heat resistant materials we have available to date are ablative materials.

That's also why it had expensive/brittle tiles rather than ablative shielding, was strapped on sideways, had solid rocket boosters to handle the added weight, and didn't have an eject capability.

Starlite is apparently ablative; if this means an endothermic phase change -- the organic polymers vaporizing, without combusting -- it could absorb an extremely large amount of heat.

If you're at just suborbital speeds, the temperature from the adiabatic compression on reentry is intense, and it's a technical challenge to handle the heating either non-ablatively, or ablatively but with cheap, safe rapidly re-applicable ablative material.