Heat Shield facts
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An English inventor invented a thermal shielding material, called Starlite, which was able to withstand extreme heat (10,000 degrees C), but never revealed its composition in fear of reverse engineering and losing control of rights to the material.
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An English inventor named Maurice Ward (1933-2011) invented a thermal shielding material called Starlite which was able to withstand extreme heat (10000 degrees C), but never revealed its composition in fear of reverse engineering and losing control of rights to the material.
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Laika, a husky-spitz mixed breed stray dog, was sent on a one-way suicide mission into space by Russia on board Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957. Though she became the first known earthling to orbit the planet, she soon died of heat overexposure when the heat shield was lost.
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The most violent man-made reentry in history. The Galileo Probe slammed into Jupiters atmosphere at almost 47.8 km per second, warming its heat shield to almost 16,000 celsius.
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In 2007, after a solar panel on the International Space Station (ISS) was torn, mission planners improvised a 30m (100ft) combination of Discovery's heat shield inspection arm and the ISS robotic arm in order to bring astronaut Scott Parazynski within reach of the panel to repair it.
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Chinese scientists developed a 15cm thick wooden heat shield, made of Oak for their FSW recoverable satellite project starting in the 1960's. Which was a success.
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China has launched and successfully recovered satellites with wooden heat shields
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NASA knew that part of the heat shield was damaged on the Space Shuttle Columbia but they decided not to tell the crew because "Don't you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die suddenly during reentry than staying in orbit, hopeless, until the air ran out?"
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After is heat shield blow up, instead of going back to the pits, F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen walked straight to his own yacht in his racing suit and promptly found his way to the hot tub.
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If engulfed in flames in a forest fire, some fire trucks can go into `burnover mode` when a sprinkler system keeps watering the truck (including each tyre) while the fire fighters hide behind heat shields.
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SpaceX rockets still use cork (i.e. tree bark, wine bottles, bulletin boards) to shield their rockets from re-entry heating
