They saw cracks in the craft's heat shield and divots in the ablative thermal protection layer resembling potholes on a neglected street. This isn't what engineers expected, and they spent the ...

The new heat shield is called Pridwen, named after the shield donned by King Arthur. A private company has plans to test a revolutionary new heat shield that folds and unfolds like origami.

The foam-covered wooden shields and swords are put into play as club members run up and down the field striking and “killing” each other, in what is described as a medieval fighting sport — Belegarth.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late ...

The landmark 2022 moon mission was a success, but questions remain about how Orion's heat shield performed. Earlier this year, NASA announced it had delayed until September 2025 the crewed Artemis ...

These delays follow an investigation into issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield. Previous delays arose over redesigns of life support systems and modifications to rocket engines.