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They were originally hoping to use transpiration cooling, the tiles ended up being the fallback.
by HPsquared 2y ago
They were originally hoping to use transpiration cooling, the tiles ended up being the fallback.
- cubefox 2y agoYeah, but it isn't clear whether they ever considered a metallic heat shield. At some point in the past it was considered an improvement over ceramic tiles, since the VentureStar was planned as a Space Shuttle successor that fixed its shortcomings.