Advanced Ceramics Laboratory
SPACE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS
RASTAS SPEAREarth-return capsule for the Marco Polo mission will encounter tremendous
heating on its return through the atmosphere at 45000km/hour
RASTAS SPEAR: Expected trajectory and heat flux of earth return capsule
RASTAS SPEAR Demonstrator Heat Shield - “Made in Greece”
RASTAS SPEAR Demonstrator Heat Shield with regolith sample sphere
RASTAS SPEAR: Plasma jet test at CIRA/Scirocco at 5MW/m2 and 4Mach jet
PULCHERNew small positioning rockets for satellites, probes and space stations
PULCHER: mini rockets based on the Bombardier Beetle!
PULCHER: Bipropellant rocket from the Apollo programme
Combustion chamber is the narrow grey part in the middle
The Pulcher rocket will be similar
PULCHER: Bipropellant rocket
Ceramic fibre-Ceramic matrix Combustion chamber
S. Schmidt et al, Acta Astronautica 55 (2004) 409 – 420
COSMIC SHIELD Protection against Galactic Cosmic Rays
COSMIC SHIELD: Particle shower in the atmosphere created by a Galactic Cosmic Rays
COSMIC SHIELD: All human missions will require shielding against Galactic Cosmic Rays
COSMIC SHIELD: Human bases require shielding against Galactic Cosmic Rays
COSMIC SHIELD: New nano-magnet composite material shield against Galactic Cosmic Rays
Anisotropic MNP’s
HDPE (nCH2) matrix (with
hydrides, not shown)
Incident high energy charged particles
HybridTPS A ceramic-ablator composite Thermal Protection System
SHS MgO + spinel + Phenolic ablator
Hybrid TPS