Arc jet testing under intense temperatures and pressures showed that heat shields made from the soil of other worlds will stand up to the conditions they would encounter plunging through Earth's ...

NASA said the heat shield investigation and other issues with the Orion spacecraft have delayed the Artemis II launch until April 2026, a slip of seven months from the previous launch date in ...

NASA’s Artemis program has hit a critical snag—over 100 unexpected cracks have been discovered in the Orion capsule’s heat shield following the uncrewed Artemis I mission. The damage, far ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin originally intended for Orion's heat shield to be monolithic, or installed as a single unit, as it was for the Apollo command module that went to the Moon in the late ...

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On Dec. 11, 2022 – the time of the Artemis I reentry – this shield took severe damage, which delayed the next two Artemis missions. While engineers are now working to prevent the same issues ...

To prepare the 50-pound probe — which will also track weather patterns on the uber-acidic world — for the intense heat of our ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space Shuttle technology to protect the next generation of reusable spacecraft ...

The company's origami-like heat shield design is being tested and could eventually lead to less expensive, reusable satellites. When an object enters a planet's atmosphere at high speed, ...

However, a Welsh design firm named Space Forge is developing a foldable heat shield in the ongoing effort make satellites reusable, and the company wants to test the concept in orbit later this year.

SpaceX is upgrading Starship’s heat shield with new tiles that are twice as strong as the previous version used during the flight 4 test. SpaceX is adingd an ablative secondary structure behind the ...

NASA Installs Heat Shield on Private Spacecraft for ... less than $10 million — a minuscule amount compared to the $500 million per project price tag on NASA's DAVINCI the Jet Propulsion ...