Radial heatshield tiles?

[telomce]

Sometimes on really harsh reentries, on Eve especially, long and narrow stuff flips and overheats. So why not add a radial heatshield to fit of surfaces with barely any protection?

[Noud]

YES!! we need this

probably a mod already.. but if not someone will make one  

[steuben]

Or maybe something like an aeroshell with an ablator rating. Some prototype discussions are here.

My mental video of the fairing blowing off in packet-of-crisps mode with just a bit of the atmospheric fire effects still in place... cool.

[TheKorbinjer]

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Had to.

 

I think it'd be cool to see radial shields added. It'd go nice with my shuttles.

[qzgy]

But....

Is it really necessary? Couldn't you stick a couple of radiators onto it to help dissipate heat.

Also, a well designed reentry should help mitigate heat problems.

[TheKorbinjer]

True, but it would add some realism. NASA doesn't add ugly thin pieces of metal outside of their spacecraft on reentry.

Not to mention, IRL those would just evaporate on reentry

[ZooNamedGames]

2 hours ago, TheKorbinger said:

True, but it would add some realism. NASA doesn't add ugly thin pieces of metal outside of their spacecraft on reentry.

Not to mention, IRL those would just evaporate on reentry

Indeed. In real life they'd struggle to dissipate heat fast enough (that is if they don't evaporate). Personally I think this would help if we could angle snap on a flat bottom to the curved mk2/mk3 bottoms and from there you could attach thermal "plates" to simulate large sections of the thermal panels for spaceplanes. Noting they don't ablate, they just have a high melting point.

[DrLicor]

@Pak has made some real nice MK3 shuttle parts with include radial/bottom parts of heatshield. 
These are only for the MK3 parts, however, you could give it a try by down- or up-scaling it for the other parts.

 

[NSEP]

Or/and ablative fairings?

[ZooNamedGames]

On 6/7/2017 at 3:37 PM, DrLicor said:

@Pak has made some real nice MK3 shuttle parts with include radial/bottom parts of heatshield. 
These are only for the MK3 parts, however, you could give it a try by down- or up-scaling it for the other parts.

 

However we're interested in seeing this become stock.

2 hours ago, NSEP said:

Or/and ablative fairings?

Possibly. Personally they have never sat well with me as far as concept but I'd use it if was available.

[Noud]

well wouldn't it be more realistic that every part has some kind of ablative values?

you can sometimes better use a engine as heat shield that an actual heat shield... as a few passes trough the atmosphere can completely wear down your heat shield... you don't have that problem with engines 

 always thought it was bit strange.