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Congratulations are in order for Textron Systems for restarting the Avcoat 5026-39 HC/G TPS for Orion.
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Congratulations are in order for Textron Systems for restarting the Avcoat 5026-39 HC/G TPS for Orion.
First He's In - Then He's Out - Then He's Back In - NASA Watch 2009
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Now they have to recover the lost manufacturing technologies used to make Avcoat 5026-39 in the 1960's!
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After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Avcoat was used for the Apollo capsule heat shield and on select regions of the space shuttle orbiter in its earliest flights.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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NASA, working with Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin, recommended Avcoat as the more robust, reliable and mature system.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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"The biggest challenge with Avcoat has been reviving the technology to manufacture the material such that its performance is similar to what was demonstrated during the Apollo missions," said John Kowal, Orion's thermal protection system manager at Johnson.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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For more than three years, NASA's Orion Thermal Protection System Advanced Development Project considered eight different candidate materials, including the two final candidates, Avcoat and Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator, or PICA, both of which have proven successful in previous space missions.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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While Avcoat was selected as the better of the two candidates, more research is needed to integrate it completely into Orion's design.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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"Once that had been accomplished, the system evaluations clearly indicated that Avcoat was the preferred system."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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