For decades, Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility has harnessed the power of the sun to expose aerospace materials to intense heat, replicating the harsh conditions of ...
Thermal protection systems, commonly known as heat shields, play a vital role in safeguarding spacecraft and high-speed ...
A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...
Outpost says its vehicles will be able to return up to 10 tons of material from space. Credit: Outpost Technologies Outpost Technologies has been awarded a $1.8 million contract from SpaceWERX to ...
SpaceX's Starship rocket successfully completed its tenth test flight (Flight 10), achieving all major objectives including the deployment of a dummy Starlink satellite payload and critical heat ...
SpaceX bypassed a second attempt to catch a returning Super Heavy booster in its launch gantry, but demonstrated for the first time reignition of a Starship Raptor engine during the program’s sixth ...
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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — NASA says a successful small-scale test of an inflatable heat shield holds promise for future planetary missions. The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment was launched Monday ...
SpaceX's ninth test flight of its Starship spacecraft, launched on May 27 from the company's Starbase facility in Texas, ended in failure shortly after liftoff. The mission aimed to deploy eight ...
Could they return on a Juno-like trajectory over the pole, with the first aero-brake maneuver being a big one, followed by a few smaller ones, then a final harder re-entry to reduce the return to 1-2 ...
"Should" is doing some heavy lifting there. The material should also have held up flying the trajectory of A1, since otherwise they wouldn't have flown that trajectory in the first place. I'm less ...