As spacecraft for manned and planetary missions get larger, so do their heat shields – which are becoming very big indeed. To avoid the day when the shield becomes too large for any existing or ...
Editor's Note: Due to weather delays, NASA is now targeting a Monday (July 23) launch date for the IRVE-3 inflatable heat shield prototype launch. The launch from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia ...
The Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE) successfully protected its payload as it fell to Earth from an altitude of more than 200 km this week An inflatable heat shield was successfully ...
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