Blowtorch vs Heat Shield
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Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
Complete transcript available.
Betsy Congdon of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is the Lead Thermal Engineer on the heat shield that NASA's Solar Probe will use to protect itself against the Sun. The shield is so robust, Congdon can use a blowtorch on one side and the other side remains cool enough to touch.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
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Editor
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Engineer
- Betsy Congdon (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
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Technical support
- Curtis Wilkerson (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, July 19, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.