What are the advantages of the new heat shield called interstellar umbrella besides folding?

As a joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says, you don't need a towel to explore the universe. On the contrary, a new planet landing technology is more like an umbrella. The mission of NASA is called Adaptive Deployable Portal Placement Technology (ADEPT). This device is completely foldable, and once the veil is lifted, it will form a hard heat insulation layer, called an air shell. NASA plans to use this technology to land larger payloads on Mars or other places without the need for larger rockets-and the related costs, expenses and complexity.

Boko Park-Popular Science: This game-changing technology can squeeze the heat shield onto a rocket with a diameter larger than the rocket itself. One day, this design may transport a larger payload to the surface of the planet than it does now. ADEPT9 made its first flight test on September 12, and launched an UP suborbital oft rocket from the American Space Port in New Mexico. Although the test results are still being analyzed, ADEPT is expected to be deployed at an altitude of 60 miles (nearly 100 km) from the earth to test the deployment and aerodynamic stability of the equipment. It will be deployed at a speed of 2,300 miles per hour (3,700 kilometers per hour), about three times the speed of sound at sea level.

Paul Woczynski, project manager of ADEPT at NASA Ames Research Center in California, said in a statement: For a deployable company like ADEPT, ground tests can be conducted, but the final flight test will demonstrate the end-to-end function-the living launch environment, which will be conducted in zero gravity and space vacuum. The air cushion includes a carbon fiber skin that is pulled onto inflatable struts and ribs. This fabric is also the main part to protect the spacecraft from entering, descending and landing. Finally, NASA plans to enter the earth at a higher speed of 65,438+07,000 miles per hour (27 kilometers per hour) to prepare for future missions. These trips may include a trip to Titan, which is a satellite of Venus, Mars or Saturn (with a thick atmosphere like Earth). ADEPT can also be used to send moon samples back to Earth.