WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans ...
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NASA chief puts Orion heat shield through final go/no-go check
On the eve of the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, NASA’s top leadership has zeroed in on a single, unforgiving ...
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 is running tests to determine the root cause behind unanticipated variations observed across the heat shield in the wake of the Artemis 1 mission. Reading time 3 minutes NASA is working to ...
Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet. Reading time 3 minutes NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion ...
The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...
SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over ...
NASA would like to start stacking the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis II mission—the first human flight around the Moon since 1972—sometime next month, but the agency’s exploration chief ...
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