From: vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate)
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Subject: Re: Heat Sink Heat Shields
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cray74@hotmail.com (Mike Miller) wrote:
> *How thick is "a thick slab of solid metal"? 

In my previous post in this thread I said a beryllium heatsink
would need to be like 5% for a 5km/sec reentry and 15% for full
reentry, but I should have said like 25% for full reentry.
These are samples 51 and 52 with "Beryllium heatsink" in the name
in my simulator at http://spacetethers.com/spacetethers.html

For transpiration it could be about 1/4th of this maybe.

   -- Vince