For some reason, NASA is treating Orion’s heat shield problems as a secret
For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away ...
Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all
The global space community awoke to a new reality on Wednesday morning.
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NASA Has Identified the Cause of Orion's Heat Shield Problem—But It's Keeping It Under Wraps
According to Hawkins and Glaze, NASA expects to share more information about Orion's heat shield issue before the end of the ...
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NASA finds, but does not disclose, root cause of Orion heat shield erosion
NASA has determined why the Orion heat shield lost more material than expected on the Artemis 1 mission but won’t disclose details until after it completes more tests.
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NASA Finds Root Cause Of Orion Heat Shield Charring
Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...
Communications user terminal prepares for historic moon flyby
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...
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Could the Trump-Musk bromance force a NASA pivot to Mars?
The tightening relationship between Donald Trump and Space X CEO Elon Musk has caught the attention of space policy analysts ...
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NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret
In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth as ... a root cause," assistant ...
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NASA Has Identified the Cause of Orion's Heat Shield Problem—But It's Keeping It Under Wraps
Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled ... assistant deputy associate administrator for NASA's Moon to Mars program office, told Ars Technica that the agency had ...
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What Trump's second term means for space and why one expert is 'hugely optimistic'
The Trump and Musk alliance could speed up the next human moon landing and Starship's first mission to Mars.
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Space export reforms to march forward amid transition to new administration
New export control rules seek to strike a balance between the need to boost U.S. industry’s global competitiveness and the need to protect sensitive technologies ...