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X-15 research aircraft coated with ablative material developed to protect the aircraft from the high temperatures encountered at supersonic speeds. The technologies tested and developed with the X-15 aircraft paved the way for space missions from early Mercury and Gemini flights through to the space shuttle.

Any heat-protecting coating or system, such as an ablation shield, which protects spacecraft from the heat of re-entry, when temperatures can reach 1,500°C/2,700°F.



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