A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These ...

Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere, its heat shield's outer surface is ...

Researchers examined a tridymite sample from a 1724 meteorite and verified that it had a glass-crystal intermediate atomic ...

No material on Earth can stand this hellish environment without being seriously damaged. So, the engineers behind these capsules designed a layer of material called a heat shield to be sacrificed ...

Sweating Heat Shields Could Be the Future Of Reusable Spacecraft 3D-printed material can off-gas a coolant, which acts as a barrier against heat buildup during descent and atmospheric re-entry.

UK-based company Zircotec has developed what is believed to be the first-ever flexible ceramic heat-shield material, opening the door for ceramic materials to be used in a far wider range of ...

Uncertainty factor MSL’s aeroshell/heat shield, designed by the aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, is the largest ever built for a planetary mission, nearly 15 feet (4.5 meters) in diameter.

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By contrast, the heat shield on NASA's Apollo capsules for return to Earth measured just less than 13 feet. Space engineers like to build in generous helpings of margin.