Officials have discussed directing around $10 billion in funding toward Artemis, NASA’s flagship exploration program, as well ...

SpaceX has launched its Starship mega rocket again after back-to-back explosions. It made it through the entire test flight ...

So, NASA needed to make sure that any damage to the capsule– even its heat shield, which is meant to take some damage – wouldn’t risk the lives of a future crew. On Dec. 11, 2022 – the ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the delays are needed to revise the Orion crew capsule's re-entry trajectory to reduce stress and prevent the sort of unexpected heat shield damage seen after ...

TL;DR: NASA has ... away from the heat shield as the module descends through the atmosphere, increasing in temperature due to friction. The material is key in the thermal protection system of ...

However, once NASA engineers got a closer look at the Orion spacecraft, their optimism faded. They saw cracks in the craft's heat shield and divots in the ablative thermal protection layer ...

"Throughout our process to investigate the heat shield phenomenon and determine a forward path, we've stayed true to NASA's core values ... material in the thermal protection system that guards ...

NASA has announced that it is delaying its ambitious Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which will see astronauts travel around and then land on the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

Instead, fragments fell off the heat shield that left cavities resembling potholes. NASA launched internal and independent investigations to look into the heat shield issue. Catherine Koerner ...

The new report from the inspector general highlights the problems with Orion’s heat shield. NASA found that protective “char layer” material from the heat shield wore away unexpectedly ...

will install additional thermal protection material in the bolt gaps. The report added that the work for Artemis 2 can’t be completed until NASA finalizes its work on the overall heat shield.