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Volume 48, Issue 10
1 October 1976
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| October 01 1976

Insulation for Orbiter: Lockheed's new Technology Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1976
Aircraft Engineering (1976) 48 (10): 24–26.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035351

An insulation material which sheds heat so rapidly that it can be held with bare hands while white hot, has been developed and put into production by Lockheed. It will be used as a heat shield to protect the crew of NASA's Space Shuttle.

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