When a spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, it must withstand temperatures of up to 3870°C. Here, inside NASA’s Arc Jet Complex at the Ames Research Centre in California, a heat-shield design is ...

As the Artemis II mission prepares to take off in March, a retired NASA engineer and astronaut has raised concerns about the Orion spacecraft's heat shield. The performance of the heat shield is ...

The heat shield on Orion is made of 186 blocks of a special material called AVCOAT, which is designed to both provide insulation against the heat, and to burn off in a controlled, predictable way, ...

Following the first human journey around the moon in more than half a century, all eyes will be on the heat shield that will protect the crew as they return to Earth — a heat shield, which was damaged ...

IS STANDARD PROTOCOL IN THREE DAYS. THE ROCKET THAT WILL TAKE THE FIRST CREW TO THE MOON IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS WILL ROLL OUT TO THE LAUNCH PAD AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. ARTEMIS TWO COULD BLAST OFF AS ...

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its ...

Subaru has been quite suggestive as of late about the possible return of the beloved STI badge, offering two different takes on the badge at the Japan Mobility Show before teasing a mysterious new ...

Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth ...

People who drive normal cars don’t often realize how hot components can get when driving, even at average highway speeds. But if you’ve ever driven a high-performance car or a motorcycle, you know ...

SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over ...

We're going to avoid the low-hanging fruit here and just say up front that no, old Beetles did not pipe hot exhaust gas straight into their cabins. They relied on exhaust gases to heat up (relatively) ...