January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... the paperweights contained a small fragment of the Apollo 11 heat shield with the other containing a small piece of Moon rock ...Jeff’, Joann placed the Moon rock and Apollo 11 heat shield paperweights on the table. Unknown to Joann, there were...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
...towards the surface. The EDL will jettison its heat shield and then deliver two surface rovers and the ...any sintered material. This would have considerable benefits for radiation shielding in the surface environment. The permeability of basalt stone ...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... during its return to Earth on Wednesday. Fitted with an inflatable, low-mass heat shield, the cargo re-entry vehicle was supposed to deploy its umbrella-shaped heat shield to a diameter of nearly 3 metre (10 feet), before falling back into Earth...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... required for day to day living, such as breathing and heating are provided by the Service Module, which sits at the... space and the spacecraft’s heat shield that will protect the crew module from the scorching 5,000 degree heat it will experience as ...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
...firmly planted on the ground and hidden under a protective heat shield is InSights’ Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) ... might strike. Speaking of striking or rather hammering, InSight’s heat flow probe, HP3, has also hit a snag, or rock...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... on the new Range Trigger technology, which improves the precision of the spacecraft’s ability to hit a landing target. – Heat shield separation: The protective bottom of the entry capsule will detach about 20 seconds after the parachute deployment...
