Two years ago next week, NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up what, at first glance, seemed to be a highly successful unpiloted test flight that made a return to the ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its ...

The landmark 2022 moon mission was a success, but questions remain about how Orion's heat shield performed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

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 ...

Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth ...

IS STANDARD PROTOCOL IN THREE DAYS. THE ROCKET THAT WILL TAKE THE FIRST CREW TO THE MOON IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS WILL ROLL OUT TO THE LAUNCH PAD AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. ARTEMIS TWO COULD BLAST OFF AS ...

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 from ...

Damage to the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft flown on Artemis 1, as depicted in a NASA Office of Inspector General report. Credit: NASA OIG HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA has determined why the Orion ...

Sounding off: NASA is getting ready to send four astronauts around the moon in a capsule whose main safety system has already behaved in an unexpected way. The Orion spacecraft's Avcoat heat shield, ...

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