But space scientists think they've figured out how to pull more drag out of literal thin air. Engineers have developed new hardware — an inflatable heat shield — that might be the key.

At the end of June we got word of the Orion spaceship meant for the crewed Artemis II mission having its heat shield installed. It's a piece of news that brings the reality of human flight to the ...

an experimental heat shield tagged along. It could land humans on Mars. The two separate missions both launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at ...

The most common form of heat shield used today is made of phenol plastic. First developed in the 1950s, these protect returning spacecraft by what is called ablative shielding.

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation materials.

While Orion doesn't require the Space Launch System rocket, it does need a working heat shield. The spacecraft's reentry parameters won't change, regardless of which rocket the new NASA leadership ...

SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 fails after a booster loss and payload door malfunction, with the spacecraft falling into the ...

Within hours of NASA announcing its decision to fly the Artemis II mission aboard an Orion spacecraft with an unmodified heat shield, critics assailed the space agency, saying it had made the ...

The heat shields for both the Mars Sample Retrieval Lander and a Titan-bound mission, Dragonfly, are designed to be made from this material, called Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator.

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The delay is due to problems with the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. Orion is the capsule in which crew members for each mission will travel, and it must withstand temperatures of nearly 5,000 ...

Space agencies worldwide are advancing inflatable heat shields to increase spacecraft protection as they aim for Mars missions and larger cargo deliveries. In general, space agencies have been ...