On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Markus Mehring wrote: > in a regular fashion. This is not how the Shuttle heat shield works. The > shield is designed to be heat resistant without conducting the heat Yes, the tiles have a remarkable ability to dissipate heat. I remembering seeing a demonstation on TV (a "60 Minutes" segment as I recall), probably in the early '80s, of someone holding a tile by the corners/edges while a blowtorch was applied to the middle of the tile. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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