Motivation
- Thermal protection systems (TPS) are critical components of reentry vehicle.
- Key difficulty is predicting and diagnosing new TPS performance
Approach
- Fiber Interferometer system would be used to permit simultaneous interferometric measurement of surface recession rates and plasma bow shock emission spectra for an ablative TPS.
Results
- Currently in the Phase I effort
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