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Arc Jet Testing of Orion Heat Shield Avcoat
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A test block of Avcoat undergoes heat pulse testing inside an arc jet test chamber at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. The test article, configured with both permeable (upper) and non-permeable (lower) Avcoat sections for comparison, helped to confirm understanding of the root cause of the loss of charred Avcoat material that engineers saw on the Orion spacecraft after the Artemis I test flight beyond the Moon.
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Credit lineArc Jet Testing of Orion Heat Shield Avcoat. NASA/ARC, 2023-12-05. Public domain. ID: jsc2024e078233.
