Thin Heat Shield for Superfast Aircraft

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-35791
Published January 01, 2020 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets, and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat. Researchers have developed a heat shield that better protects those extremely fast machines.