Inflatable Heat Shield In SFS Mars Tech Demo
Nasa LOFTID Inflatable Heat Shield Test In Spaceflight Simulator
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Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID)
LOFTID
Illustration of Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID).
NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, is demonstrating a cross-cutting aeroshell -- a type of heat shield -- for atmospheric re-entry. For destinations with an atmosphere, one of the challenges NASA faces is how to deliver heavy payloads (experiments, equipment, and people) because current rigid aeroshells are constrained by a rocket’s shroud size. One answer is an inflatable aeroshell that can be deployed to a scale much larger than the shroud. This technology enables a variety of proposed NASA missions to destinations such as Mars, Venus, Titan as well as return to Earth