AVCOAT
Sign in to savethumb|250 px|Apollo and Orion Avcoat AVCOAT 5026-39 is a NASA code for several versions of a specific ablative heat shield material originally created by Avco for the Apollo program. It is composed of silica fibers in an epoxy novolac resin. The original AVCOAT was used for the Apollo Command Module heat shield. A reformulated version was used for the initial Orion heat shield and later for a redesigned Orion heat shield.
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It is catalogued under the topic Spacecraft components.
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Specifications
- AVCOAT-based heat shields
- Apollo Command Module
- Orion EFT-1 Crew Module
- Orion Artemis Crew Module
- Artemis I heat shield performance
- Later Artemis missions
- Flight use
- Uncrewed
- Crewed
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|250 px|Apollo and Orion Avcoat AVCOAT 5026-39 is a NASA code for several versions of a specific ablative heat shield material originally created by Avco for the Apollo program. It is composed of silica fibers in an epoxy novolac resin. The original AVCOAT was used for the Apollo Command Module heat shield. A reformulated version was used for the initial Orion heat shield and later for a redesigned Orion heat shield.
== History == AVCOAT was used for the heat shield on NASA's Apollo command module. In its final Apollo form, this material was called AVCOAT 5026–39.
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