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How heat affects spacecraft and space missions, or materials and methods to deal with heat.

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Why are the heat sensor probes in HP3 probe spaced with reducing gap with depth?

The HP3 probe used for studying the geothermal features of Martian surface, hammers upto 5m deep and inserts a tether lined with heat sensor probes. This link shared earlier by @uhoh, is an excellen …
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Why doesn't a regeneratively cooled engine crack due to differential expansion induced by th...

A liquid rocket engine with regeneratively cooled chamber walls and nozzles would definitely be one among those components experiencing the steepest thermal gradients (Chamber wall inner - $3000 K$ and …
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Why is Adiabatic wall temperature taken as the driving temperature in rocket engines?

The definition of $T_{aw}$ is: Adiabatic wall temperature is the temperature acquired by a wall in liquid or gas flow if the condition of thermal insulation is observed on it. …
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