Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...

NASA has determined why the Orion heat shield lost more material than expected on the Artemis 1 mission but won’t disclose details until after it completes more tests.

Recently, NASA engineers tested heat shield materials for the Mars Lander at Sandia. "This would be the first mission to ...

According to Hawkins and Glaze, NASA expects to share more information about Orion's heat shield issue before the end of the ...

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Testing on this type of setup is just part of NASA's test plan for the heat shield use case, with other tests happening elsewhere. Given the importance of this particular material to the overall ...

In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...

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 ...