SpaceX’s experimental test of metallic heat shield tiles for the Starship vehicle ended in failure, with the tiles degrading rapidly under extreme thermal stress. The setback exposes a significant ...

It started with an innocent rattle. The kind you chalk up to bad gas, a loose heat shield, or the universe reminding you that ...

Heat shields are designed to protect the surface and cargo of a spacecraft as it enters an atmosphere. Aerospace engineers in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois ...

Liquid metal does offer superior thermal conductivity, but the risk isn't worth it for the vast majority of applications.

Some FDM filaments are pretty brittle even if properly dried and stored, especially those which contain carbon fiber (CF) or similar additives like glass fiber (GF). This poses a problem in that ...