The thermal protection system on the outside of the space shuttle included hundreds of ceramic tiles custom made for the ...

The Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles are one of the major ... 2,000 TPS tile compared to the 24,000 tiles used on the Space Shuttle. Dream Chaser is about 1/4 the size of a Shuttle Orbiter.

Private space company Sierra Space announced it is developing a new tile-based thermal protection system to support ...

On Nov. 16, 2009, space shuttle Atlantis began its 31st trip into space, on the third Utilization and Logistics Flight (ULF3) ...

CMC tiles will be used on the Sierra Space DC100 Dream Chaser spaceplane carrying critical supplies and science experiments ...

Those were part of the space agency's Space Shuttle Orbiter Thermal Protection System (TPS), which was first used in the ...

ORNL and Sierra Space developed a thermal protection system for reusable spacecraft, withstanding multiple re-entries.

You need to get a few facts straight about the shuttle thermal protection system. The tiles were formed by compacting an aqueous slurry of silica fiber into virtually weightless blocks. These were ...

The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were ...

You’d think space would ... To make the printer Shuttle-worthy, a 600-baud frequency-shift keying (FSK) interface was added, which patched into the spaceplane’s comms system.

Engineers suspect the fault protection system lowered the rate at which data was being sent back from the transmitter, which changed the nature of the signal shared by Voyager 1 to the Deep Space ...

The Haolong space shuttle is being developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute under the state-owned ...