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

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 ...

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

The report from NASA’s inspector general was released this week and details issues with the heat shield, which lost some material during the first flight of Orion during the Artemis I mission in ...

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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 ...

A heat shield is essential for even a partially reusable spacecraft: It protects the vehicle as it encounters unfathomable speeds and temperatures during atmospheric reentry. NASA says it spent 15 ...

Experts are working on a unique experiment that will use an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield to protect a spacecraft when entering a planet's atmosphere or returning to Earth (02:37) Astronomers ...

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 ...