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 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 ...

The agency conducted 121 tests on the heat shield’s thermal properties, using the arc jet facility and the interaction heating facility at the Ames Research Center, the hypersonic wind tunnels ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

European startup Atmos achieved a milestone with Phoenix 1's successful orbital test flight, showcasing innovative space logistics and inflatable heat shield technology.

Sweating Heat Shields Could Be the Future Of Reusable Spacecraft. 3D-printed material can off-gas a coolant, ... or hours, making it much-more akin to a commercial jet.