Thermal Protection Systems State of the Industry

This presentation provides an overview of thermal protection systems (TPS) used on space vehicles and a brief description of the environments to which they are exposed. The types of TPS will be discussed as well as their current availability. Challenges facing the TPS designer will also be summarized.
Presented by Stan Bouslog, TPS Senior Discipline Expert at NASA JSC.
Stan Bouslog earned his B.S & M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. In support of NASA programs he has been an analyst for both aerothermodynamics and thermal protection systems (TPS) and conducted hypersonic and arc-jet tests. He has served as the Aero/Thermal Manager for the X-33 TPS, supported the Columbia Accident Investigation, and also served as the Orbiter TPS NASA System Engineer and the Orion Heat Shield Subsystem Manager. Currently, he is the TPS Senior Discipline Expert at NASA JSC.

[@rogeramjet100]

Excellent presentation! Would love it if the proposed SAMPE TPS forum came to be!

[@dannytjokrosetio5229]

Love this lecture - thank you for condensing heritage and current(ly developed) TPS into one video and briefly mentioning European developments on CMC TPS/Hot structures. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) was also a contractor for the X-38's C/SiC hot structure nose. A minor correction in your presentation is that Herakles, a Safran company, no longer exists, and the entity that developed the CMC hot structures for the IXV is now called ArianeGroup (a Safran-Airbus company).

[@Astroponicist]

Darren T Marchant, Independant researcher, Boise State University, 43°37'04.9"N 116°13'00.2"W. In the future I would like to suggest a discussion on the subject of the state of Astroponics technology today with an eye on Lunar & Martian Human Occupation. thank you bro.

[@jshellenberger7876]

#Po w

[@Astroponicist]

Astroponics Astroponics AS•TRO•PON•ICS |\, a-strɘ-'ä-niks : specialty life support systems for the production of plant and animal products in microgravity, lunar, or Martian environments. In a sentence: Lynn and Betty were working in the astroponics bay right after landing on Mars.