Jesse Rogerson
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Yeah, nailed it.
Absolutely.
PV equals NRT.
That's exactly, it's just.
I listened.
I listened in university.
Do you remember the name of that law?
Close enough.
The ideal gas law, yes.
Very ideal.
So they have to find a way to deal with all of this rise in temperature.
And the best way to do it is to use the atmosphere to slow you down.
You put a very special material on the front of your spacecraft.
That's the part that's shocking the air.
And that material that you use is, there's been a variety of ones that's been used.
There's been ceramics used, carbon fibers.
They're using silicate fibers.
And the idea is to find a way to dissipate the heat.
And they're also ablative.
which means that the materials are designed to sort of peel away as they burn up.