Artemis I's heat shield was damaged during reentry. Engineers are now working to prevent the issue from happening on a future ...

It’s a good idea to make sure your spacecraft can take the heat that comes with reentering Earth’s atmosphere before you put ...

On top of that, the rocket's launch vehicle, NASA's heavy-lift Space Launch System, also performed near-flawlessly on its ...

His idea was to block that radiant heat with a folding barrier, but to make sure it would ... The finished heat shield is an enormous tri-fold plywood beast that snugs up against the door when ...

This char then acts as a second heat barrier. NASA used the same heat shield design for Orion as the Apollo capsule. But during the Apollo missions, the char structure didn’t break like it did ...

NASA’s struggles are in stark contrast to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, which is using its workhorse Starship for multiple launch ...

NASA reported after Artemis I returned to Earth that the vehicle's heat shield had experienced an unexpected loss of charred material. NASA intended to use this same material for future crewed ...

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 ...

This problem involves the Orion spacecraft's heat shield. During atmospheric reentry at the end of the uncrewed Artemis I test flight in 2022, the Orion capsule's heat shield eroded and cracked in ...