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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Sierra Space, Oak Ridge Test Advanced TPS is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence ...

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.

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

A NASA astronaut suffered a medical issue and remains hospitalized in Florida on Friday after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month stay in space ... that thermal protection system having ...

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is collaborating with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to establish a Centre of Excellence for research in ‘Fluid and Thermal Sciences’.