Today, the control of the end of life of a satellite is essential in order to limit the pollution of earth orbits on the one hand, and to reduce the risks of material and/or human damage linked to their uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere on the other hand. It is thus imperative to preserve some energy to deorbit the satellite at the end of its life and place it on an appropriate atmospheric re-entry trajectory. During the re-entry, the flow and the wall of the object are in strong interaction: the parietal heating linked to the transformation of kinetic energy into heat, leads to the degradation of the material by pyrolysis, oxidation, erosion and even sublimation.