Dragonfly's heat shield will be responsible for ensuring the safety of the NASA rotorcraft as it makes its way through ...

NASA, in its mission to send a craft to explore Titan, one of Saturn’s many moons, faced a dilemma. Dragonfly, the rotorcraft that will explore Titan, needed a heat shield to survive a two-hour ...

See NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) in this flight test animation. it will be ...

Smoke billowing off NASA’s heat shield material during a recent test at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For decades, Sandia National ...

Deputy project manager Patty Ortiz is framed in the window of a thermal chamber at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center used to stress-test sensors such as those on Artemis II's capsule that will ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. NASA has wrapped up a two-year-long investigation into the cracked heatshield on the Artemis I Orion module that landed back on Earth after being sent on a ...

The uncrewed Artemis I came back with unexpected charring on the spacecraft's heat shield. This is an artist's imagining of that reentry. NASA/Liam Yanulis When Artemis II comes blazing back through ...

Despite some hiccups, the first flight of Starship V3 was an overall success, and the rocket's heat shield certainly exceeded ...

SpaceX’s next Starship test is not just another launch attempt. After scrubbing the May 21 try seconds before liftoff, the ...