They are astonishingly beautiful moments of human endeavour, but not all spacewalks go to plan – astronauts and cosmonauts ...

Lessons learned from the June test flight prompted SpaceX to replace thousands of heat shield tiles on the Starship vehicle for the next mission. While the ship survived reentry in June ...

SpaceX return rockets and ISS return capsules ... These coverings are often made of materials that absorb and vaporize heat ...

Here it's instructive to recall what happened to the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. Due to damage to some heat-shielding tiles sustained during liftoff weeks earlier, superheated gasses entered, and ...

At that point, the two space veterans will return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with other ... like that a shotgun had been shot on the delicate silicon (heat protection) tiles because ...

Industrial heat, which is used by companies as diverse as breweries and food processors to chemical manufacturers and paper ...

SpaceX is watching the weather ahead of Tuesday's Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission, which ...

The water deluge system is used to disperse the enormous amount of heat and sound generated during lift-off. According to CNBC, SpaceX recently received violation notices from the Texas Commission ...

The company was cited for repeated use of its launch pad water deluge system without the proper permit and a chemical spill.

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth ... superheated plasma roared at the edges of its protective heat shield. Related stories Isaacman had done this before, but it was the first ...

The Polaris Dawn crew completed a five-day mission aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule, featuring the first commercial spacewalk led by Jared Isaacman. The team reached an altitude of 875 miles and ...