A retooled, more permeable heat shield will be mounted on the Artemis III mission, but for Artemis II, the heat shield design will remain unchanged. According to NASA, the costs and further delays to ...

Less than a year after announcing major delays for the next two Artemis moon missions, NASA managers said Thursday the projected flight dates are slipping once again, with the first piloted voyage ...

In deep-space travel, sometimes the most important “hardware” is a few inches of material that only matters for minutes. The Artemis II mission will orbit four astronauts around the Moon and return ...

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 Artemis II mission that will take a crew of astronauts around the moon and back to Earth is expected to launch no earlier than February 6, 2026.

You all know what a heat shield is: a key component on a spacecraft, meant to protect it from the extreme temperatures of atmospheric re-entry. But did you know that NASA has invented a new type of ...

Using cutting-edge material licensed from NASA, a protective heat shield manufactured in-house by Varda Space Industries for the first time enabled one of its capsules to blaze through Earth’s ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its ...