Synonyms for heat shield
heat shield

Princeton's WordNet

1. heat shieldnoun

   a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry

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1. • Protective Covering

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1. Nicola Fox:

   We've been inside the orbit of Mercury and done amazing things, but until you go and touch the sun, you can't answer these questions, why has it taken us 60 years ? The materials didn't exist to allow us to do it. We had to make a heat shield, and we love it. Something that can withstand the extreme hot and cold temperature shifts of its 24 orbits is revolutionary.

2. Rocket Lab:

   This is really important because if you don't have the stage orientated perfectly with the heat shield down, then basically as the reentry process begins, it's like a big ball of plasma [ and ] it'll basically shred the stage.