NASA is intending to use its new Orion capsule to send astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program, but a new report finds that issues with the capsule’s heat shield could be a risk to crew ...

NASA concluded that the Artemis II heat shield "can keep the crew safe during the planned mission with changes to Orion's trajectory as it enters Earth's atmosphere.” While some might find the ...

The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

A company that's slated to launch the world's first-ever private mission to Venus is getting ready for the planet's super-hot temperatures with some help from NASA ... apply a heat shield onto ...

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NASA further attributed Artemis delays to issues with the Orion heat shield that flew on Artemis I back in 2022. Engineers identified a design flaw that caused the capsule to lose its outer layer ...

The challenge of surviving those conditions led to NASA’s last delay, pushing what had been a September 2024 target to the current April 2025 launch target. Orion’s heat shield had suffered ...

The Artemis I Orion spacecraft is currently undergoing ... to permit Orion to reenter at lunar velocities to test the heat shield. For the Artemis I Orion, in late August 2021, the first of ...

NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four ...

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...

A decade on, it's the biggest driver of cost growth at NASA ... Orion costs over the past year were inflated by the delay of the next Artemis lunar mission to December. Battery and heat shield ...

The missions had been slated to launch in 2025 and 2026, but unexpected damage to Orion's heat shield during Artemis 1 prompted NASA to delay both by more than a year.