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DAVINCI probe test article holds up in 465°C heat trial
A post says engineers heated the test article to 869°F (465°C) over an hour to simulate a Venus descent.
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One post says a DAVINCI probe test article reached 869°F (465°C) in a ceramic chamber over an hour, and that its structure and systems held up. The post describes the NASA probe as designed to descend through Venus’s atmosphere and investigate whether the planet was once wet and Earth-like.
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