{"id":190299,"date":"2009-12-12T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/12\/neat-tech-magnetic-heat-shield\/"},"modified":"2009-12-12T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T20:08:00","slug":"neat-tech-magnetic-heat-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/12\/neat-tech-magnetic-heat-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat Tech: Magnetic Heat Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img692.imageshack.us\/img692\/2917\/getassetf.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img692.imageshack.us\/img692\/2917\/getassetf.gif\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Cool!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Since air becomes ionized, and by definition charged, during re-entry, the Russians are looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/24\/335327\/magnetic-heat-shield-test-could-use-russian-launcher.html\">using a magnetic heat shield as an adjunct to physical heat resisting techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, by generating a magnetic field, it can deflect the hotter air away from the spacecraft:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The flight test would use a Russian Volna rocket, which is able to launch a 650kg (1,430lb) payload. The Volan capsule will be the payload for the flight test. It will re-enter the atmosphere at up to Mach 21, and design work is under way to fit the super conducting coil system within its internal volume.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues to be tackled include the ability of the coil to withstand the launch and flight environment; trajectory modification to compensate for the increased drag caused by the atmospheric gas deflection; and telemetry data recovery, when radio signal blocking ionised gases form around the vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Cool! Since air becomes ionized, and by definition charged, during re-entry, the Russians are looking at using a magnetic heat shield as an adjunct to physical heat resisting techniques. Basically, by generating a magnetic field, it can deflect the hotter air away from the spacecraft: The flight test would use a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}