Volume 34, Issue 6 No AccessGalileo Probe Heat Shield Ablation ExperimentFrank S. MilosFrank S. Milos NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035-1000Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/2.3293SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookXLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byPFedRobust: A personalized federated learning framework toward robustness against data poisoning attacks in IoT1 Jun 2026 | Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 343Pyrolysis kinetic parameter and thermophysical property identification of charring ablative materials under high heating rate (>100 K/s)1 Apr 2026 | Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 292MXOD Flight 1: Structural Architecture & Material SelectionSpencer Smith, Adam R. Kotler, Aleksandr Y. Zhuchkan, Thomas J. Morris, Subhan Wade, Tyler Dore, Andrew La Sorsa and Kareem A. 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