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

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

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

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 ...

SpaceX launched its sixth Starship rocket Tuesday, proving for the first time that the stainless steel ship can maneuver in ...

A silicon-carbide-based thermal protection system developed by ORNL and Sierra Space researchers will be used on the Sierra ...

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 ...