Can carbon fiber be used as a heat shield?
Highly-porous carbon-fiber materials of the kind FiberForm® [1] are excellent insulators and are used in ablative heat shields for the atmospheric re-entry of a spacecraft [2], [3].
Highly-porous carbon-fiber materials of the kind FiberForm® [1] are excellent insulators and are used in ablative heat shields for the atmospheric re-entry of a spacecraft [2], [3].
