However, once NASA engineers got a closer look at the Orion spacecraft, their optimism faded. They saw cracks in the craft's heat shield and divots in the ablative thermal protection layer ...

5 Jul 2023, 13:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA said at the end of June the heat shield of the Orion spaceship for the Artemis II mission has been installed, here's a closer look at the tech ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the delays are needed to revise the Orion crew capsule's re-entry trajectory to reduce stress and prevent the sort of unexpected heat shield damage seen after ...

More of the charred material than expected came off the heat shield during the Artemis I reentry, and the way it came off was somewhat uneven, NASA officials said. Orion's heat shield is made of a ...

During a recent meeting, NASA officials revealed that the space agency would not proceed with the launch of the Artemis 2 mission until it understood the problem with the heat shield and made ...

The Orion crew module for NASA’s Artemis II mission. NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA is intending to use its new Orion capsule to send astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program, but a new report ...

NASA has announced that it is delaying its ambitious Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which will see astronauts travel around and then land on the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the Moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not yet.

Related: NASA still investigating Orion heat shield issues from Artemis 1 moon mission The report says NASA found over 100 areas on Orion's heat shield — where thermal material protects the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Over a year ago, NASA’s Artemis I mission returned to Earth, completing a round-trip ...

Recently, NASA engineers tested heat shield materials for the Mars Lander at Sandia. "This would be the first mission to return rocks from Mars to Earth; it's got a bigger payload," said Ken ...

Image Engineers on the LOFTID inflatable heat shield, which landed in the ocean near Hawaii after a test flight early Thursday.Credit...NASA Closer to home, about a dozen companies have expressed ...