NASA’s return to crewed lunar flight is now hinging on a slab of material at the bottom of Orion that did not behave the way engineers expected. Instead of a straightforward fix, the agency is ...

Smoke billowing off NASA’s heat shield material during a recent test at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For decades, Sandia National ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is quietly tackling one of fusion energy’s toughest engineering problems: turning raw neutron ...

A retooled, more permeable heat shield will be mounted on the Artemis III mission, but for Artemis II, the heat shield design will remain unchanged. According to NASA, the costs and further delays to ...

Starship’s body is made of stainless steel, a heavier material than carbon composites but chosen for its durability. After Flight 10, parts of the body still gleamed while others were dented and ...

As NASA ramps up the preparation to send four people on a trip around the moon and back, a debate is raging among experts and former astronauts over whether the mission’s spacecraft is as safe as the ...

Outpost says its vehicles will be able to return up to 10 tons of material from space. Credit: Outpost Technologies Outpost Technologies has been awarded a $1.8 million contract from SpaceWERX to ...

That fact is that there are modern heatshields and none are built how you suggest. Dragon uses cast blocks of PICA-X and Starliner uses a hand filled honeycomb of something proprietary. Dragon seems ...

Using cutting-edge material licensed from NASA, a protective heat shield manufactured in-house by Varda Space Industries for the first time enabled one of its capsules to blaze through Earth’s ...