What SpaceX’s Most Powerful Rocket Test Reveals About Reusability Challenges? On Tuesday evening, SpaceX’s Starship at last accomplished what had thwarted it for three tries in a row: a complete ...

At the end of June we got word of the Orion spaceship meant for the crewed Artemis II mission having its heat shield installed. It's a piece of news that brings the reality of human flight to the Moon ...

For those who follow NASA’s human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...

The damage to the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission is already top of mind for NASA as it works to make the Artemis II mission safe for humans. But a new agency report revealed the extent of ...

Two years ago next week, NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up what, at first glance, seemed to be a highly successful unpiloted test flight that made a return to the ...

TL;DR: NASA has completed its assessment of the cracked heatshield on the Orion module and determined that Artemis II astronauts will be safe without requiring a redesign. NASA has wrapped up a ...

The U.S. Navy works to recover the Orion spacecraft following its 2022 test flight to the moon. NASA / Josh Valcarcel NASA’s Orion spacecraft, intended to carry astronauts to the moon in the next ...

SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over ...

Frictions exerted during atmospheric reentry are enough to rend spacecraft into comets of glowing slag if not properly mitigated — that’s a good thing, when intentional, but otherwise nearly always ...