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

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 ...

The new heat shield is called Pridwen, named after the shield donned by King Arthur. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A private ...

SpaceX has ablative heat shield underneath the 18,000+ heat shield tiles. SpaceX Starship is going through peak heating and looks good and undamaged for the orbital re-entry and return. Now about ten ...

Returning from the moon is a lot spicier. It made its non-ablative shield work because it had a very large surface area for its mass. One reference has 479 m^2 as the reference. It's in the ballpark ...

Welsh in-space manufacturing startup Space Forge has developed a satellite reentry system to enable rapid recovery and reuse of its in-space manufacturing spacecraft. The new system, which includes a ...