Decelerating Spacecraft: Insights from a NASA Technologist

Spacecraft Deceleration Mechanisms Explored: Insights from a NASA Technologist

Over the years, the engineering community has leaned towards established methods like rigid heat shields and retropropulsion for spacecraft deceleration. Today, NASA is embarking on a pioneering journey by testing an innovative inflatable heat shield technology. This cutting-edge approach holds the potential to revolutionize payload capacities for missions to worlds with atmospheres.

Scheduled for launch on November 1st, in tandem with NOAA’s JPSS-2 mission, is the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID). Aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, LOFTID aims to validate the heat shield's remarkable capacity to effectively slow down and endure the demanding entry into an atmosphere.

Learn more about this revolutionary endeavor: [Insert Link to NASA Article]

Delve into the intricacies of LOFTID's mission details: [Insert Link to Mission Details]

Produced by Scott Bednar and Jessica Wilde, Edited by Daniel Salazar
Credit: NASA

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