A company that's slated to launch the world's first-ever private mission to Venus is getting ready for the planet's super-hot temperatures with some help from NASA. The space agency boasted in a press ...

As for the heat shield, NASA determined the gasses generated inside the heat shield's Avcoat material were unable to vent and dissipate as expected. "This allowed pressure to build up and cracking ...

Invented at Ames, NASA's Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET)—the brown, textured material covering the bottom of the capsule in this photo—is a woven heat shield ...

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This innovative material has been developed to ensure a safe entry for future missions targeting high-temperature planets like Venus. The private Venus probe will be launched aboard Rocket Lab’s ...

A company that's slated to launch the world's first-ever private mission to Venus is getting ready for the planet's super-hot temperatures with some help from NASA. The space agency ... to apply a ...