In a social media post, SpaceX owner Elon Musk said in spite of the explosive endings, the ninth Starship test flight was a ...

Atmos Space Cargo's Phoenix 1 mission marks Europe's entry into space return technology, with rapid prototyping and multinational collaboration leading the way.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Atmos’ Phoenix 1 capsule, which features an innovative inflatable heat shield, on its debut test flight on April 21. [Courtesy: Atmos Space Cargo] German space ...

The company’s inaugural mission was designed to test the capsule’s heat shield during reentry. In doing so, ATMOS is hoping to develop a capsule capable of carrying out research in orbit and ...

the capsule came into view from Earth as it soared across the water at a red-hot 400 miles per hour, which set its heat shield aglow in the clear afternoon skies. Moments earlier, it had been ...

These heat shields protect re-entering spacecraft and their cargo, such as pieces of a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid or astronauts who will travel in the Orion crew capsule. "In the past, the ...

That’s when crew members started to spot big cracks on Orion’s lower surface, where the capsule’s exterior bonds to its heat shield. But why wouldn’t a shield that has endured temperatures ...

As this illustration of the Apollo VIII command module reentering Earth shows, heat shields protect the crew capsule from high temperatures. Credit: North American Rockwell The Orion capsule concluded ...

What was found to have happened was heat accumulated in the heat shield's outer layer ... there are three Orion crew capsules at KSC. While the Artemis II crew capsule is already preparing ...

That's when crew members started to spot big cracks on Orion's lower surface, where the capsule's exterior bonds to its heat shield. But why wouldn't a shield that has endured temperatures of ...