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NASA tests thermal protection for aerocapture

Submit on Friday, December 22nd, 2006 05:27

Scientists at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have met a critical milestone in the development of aerocapture technology, a manoeuvre that primarily uses a planet’s atmosphere to capture a spacecraft and place it in the desired orbit.

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