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olaisolheim committed Aug 26, 2014
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A small parts package of heat shields for Kerbal Space Program and the fabulous Deadly Reentry Continued mod created by NathanKell (who is awesome) based on the works by ialdabaoth and r4m0n.

Features:
* Currently featuring the *Conical Heat Shield* inspired by the sphere-cone heat shield on the Mars Science Laboratory.
* Comes in three sizes: 1.25m, 2.5m, and 3.75m.
* Works great with Ferram Aerospace Research by ferram4 in that sphere-cone shaped heat shields offer greater control (by lift) over blunt ones.
* Unlike the heat shields in DRE, the Conical Heat Shield does not have an "omni-decoupler". Instead, it has a single decoupler on the top attachment point (yellow/black ring), allowing for more custom designs.
* Depending on size, it has additional attachment points inside the "bowl" of the shield for different sizes, allowing you to build more into the shield itself (say, science stuff which isn't needed once the shield is jetted).
* Depending on size, it has additional attachment points inside the "bowl" of the shield for different sizes, allowing you to build more into the shield itself (say, science stuff which isn't needed once the shield is jetted).

Known issues:
* None.

Future:
* More heat shields based on real-life ones, like a Galileo-style reflective heat shield.
* I've been playing with the idea of a giant heat shield with a "hatch" at the center, allowing for engines to fire through it once the hatch is open, allowing for a more realistic spaceship design with g-forces pointing the same direction during both burns and aerobreaking (like the one in BBC's documentary Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets).

Thanks to...
* ialdabaoth and r4m0n, for creating the excellent Deadly Reentry mod, and to NathanKell for extending upon and maintaining it. Heat shields would be boring without it!
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