Varda’s W-1 mission completed the first commercial reentry on U.S. soil when it landed in Utah in 2024. The W-2 and W-3 ...

The Radian Reusable Re-entry Vehicle, or R3V ... protection material that Radian invented to withstand the stresses of atmospheric re-entry at hypersonic speeds. R3V is under development in ...

However, one of their biggest challenges was safely reentering the Martian atmosphere. Many early attempts at Mars missions failed because the vehicles either burned up during re-entry or crashed onto ...

Get live updates on the Starship rocket launch from SpaceX's Starbase headquarters in Texas. See what time it launches, where ...

The new system, which includes a heat shield and a water vehicle designed to soften ... enough to radiate away the heat generated by atmospheric reentry. The shield, made out of a high-temperature ...

However, in order to do that, the Hawthorn-based company will first need to prove that its vehicle can reliably ... and survivability through atmospheric re-entry. Survival during this phase ...

SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 fails after a booster loss and payload door malfunction, with the spacecraft falling into the ...

This method creates a layer of gas along the vehicle’s surface that not only cools the spacecraft but also acts as a barrier preventing direct contact with the hot atmosphere. “Gas has a very ...