The new heat shield is called Pridwen, named after the shield donned by King Arthur. A private company has plans to test a revolutionary new heat shield that folds and unfolds like origami. The ...

The heat shield, made of a material called Avcoat, was supposed to gradually and evenly burn away when the Orion spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere at a velocity of more than 24,500 mph ...

NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the Moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not yet.

The heat shield, made of a material called Avcoat, is attached to the base of the Orion spacecraft in 186 blocks. A char layer that builds up on the outer skin of the Avcoat material is supposed ...

When a polar satellite designed to improve weather forecasting launched early Thursday, an experimental heat shield tagged along. It could land humans on Mars.

The company's origami-like heat shield design is being tested and could eventually lead to less expensive, reusable satellites. When an object enters a planet's atmosphere at high speed, ...

The heat shield, called Pridwen and built by Welsh company Space Forge, can be folded before launch and then expanded into this shuttlecock-like shape once ready for re-entry.

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Heat shield damage seen during the first Artemis test flight is now understood, NASA says, but more time is needed to implement fixes. Latest U.S.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space Corporation have developed a new heat shield based on venerable 1980s Space Shuttle technology to protect the next generation of reusable spacecraft ...