In deep-space travel, sometimes the most important “hardware” is a few inches of material that only matters for minutes. The ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...

NASA scientists developing the next generation of exploration vehicles and heat shields for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle experienced “Christmas in July” when they uncrated the heat shields ...

Bringing a spacecraft back to Earth means dealing with the intense heat of reentry. Heat shields can protect a vehicle from high temperatures, but the shield is destroyed in the process. The ESA is ...

The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency ...

On the eve of the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, NASA’s top leadership has zeroed in on a single, unforgiving piece of hardware: the Orion capsule’s heat shield. The final go or no-go ...

Lockheed Martin has delivered the Orion crew vehicle’s heat shield for the upcoming EM-1 test flight to the Kennedy Space Center from its manufacturing facility in Denver, Colorado. The heat shield, ...

Atomically thin materials developed by Stanford University researchers could create heat-shields for cell phones or laptops that would protect people and temperature-sensitive components, in addition ...

An artist’s rendering of the experimental inflatable heat shield design launched yesterday. Photo via NASA/AMA A spacecraft re-entering Earth’s atmosphere encounters temperatures as high as 1850 ...

MSI first revealed its specially designed heatsink for M.2 SSDs back on 29th November. The patent pending design of the MSI M.2 Heat Shield was claimed to lower temperatures and prevent throttling of ...