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

Artemis 2 was initially slotted for a December 2024 liftoff, but that schedule was delayed in January 2024. NASA said several ...

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

The heat shields for both the Mars Sample Retrieval Lander and a Titan-bound mission, Dragonfly, are designed to be made from this material, called Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator.

SpaceX has transported its Starship spacecraft to the launchpad in preparation for a scheduled flight test on November 18.

SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will survive off-world is ...

SpaceX Starship flight 6 plans to launch in 6 days on November 18, 2024. They will be performing a similar flight to flight 5 ...

Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule ... A light went on in Mission Control indicating that Glenn’s heat shield was loose, which meant he would burn up in the atmosphere ...

A silicon-carbide-based thermal protection system developed by ORNL and Sierra Space researchers will be used on the Sierra ...

SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. Next week's launch – if ...

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 ...