The reflective chrome bulging circular disk that is Orion's heat shield hangs below a circular scaffolding. White panels circle the edge of the heat shield where it attaches to the Orion capsule.

Off the coast of Baja California in December 2022, sun sparkled over the rippling sea as waves sloshed around the USS Portland dock ship. Navy officials on the deck scrutinized the sky in search of a ...

The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...

At the end of June we got word of the Orion spaceship meant for the crewed Artemis II mission having its heat shield installed. It's a piece of news that brings the reality of human flight to the Moon ...

HOUSTON — NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ...

Orion's selfie with Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled to the Moon and back, but its equipment wasn't fully stable throughout the journey. Now, ...

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA officials declared the Artemis I mission successful in late 2022, and it’s hard to argue with that assessment. The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft performed nearly flawlessly on ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will land the next American astronauts and first international astronaut on the South Pole region of the Moon. On Thursday, ...

It doesn’t have to, if they can merely change the operating regime. Your question seems to imply I wrote that the heat shield operated as expected. Can you show me where I wrote that? No one is ...

Engineers are partnering this month at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to remove and analyze some 180 small squares of an ablative material called Avcoat — the outer coating of the heat shield that ...

NASA is making headway in its preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, which will send astronauts on a mission around the moon. Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida have attached ...