Industry Related News April 2026: NASA’s Artemis program represents humanity’s bold return to lunar exploration, with each mission building on the lessons—and data—of the one before. A cornerstone of this progress has been rigorous thermal testing, particularly of the heat shield that protects the Orion spacecraft and its crew when returning through Earth’s [...]
Industry Related News March 2026: NASA’s Artemis II mission, set to launch astronauts around the Moon, has drawn particular attention to the thermal protection system on the Orion spacecraft, especially the heat shield that protects the crew module during reentry. This heat shield uses AVCOAT ablative material, which is designed to absorb and [...]
Industry Related News February 2026: NASA engineers have recently completed a crucial phase of environmental qualification for the ComPair-2 gamma-ray detector prototype by subjecting it to rigorous thermal vacuum testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This test involved placing the detector layer inside a thermal vacuum chamber, a specialized [...]
Industry Related News January 2026: NASA’s StarBurst instrument, a small satellite designed to detect the earliest gamma‑ray emissions from powerful cosmic events, has successfully completed a series of rigorous environmental tests in preparation for its upcoming launch. Central to this testing campaign was an extensive thermal testing conducted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight [...]
Industry Related News: ispace recently reached a major development milestone for its Series 3 lunar lander by completing an extensive round of thermal vacuum testing, a critical step in preparing hardware for the harsh realities of space. This testing was performed on the lander’s Structural Thermal Model (STM), which is designed to represent [...]
Industry Related News: November 2024 NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has taken lunar mission preparations to the next level through rigorous thermal vacuum testing. Using "Chamber A," a specialized facility capable of replicating the moon's extreme conditions, engineers evaluate how advanced solar technologies perform under temperatures as low as 20 Kelvin. These [...]
Industry Related News: October 2024 Exciting developments are underway in the realm of meteorological missions, with the completion of the first all-new MetOp satellite and the ongoing testing of its sibling, MetOp-SG. These advancements mark a significant leap forward in our ability to monitor and understand Earth’s climate and weather patterns. At the [...]
Industry Related News: September 2024 - United States NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft recently completed an important phase of its journey: environmental testing, with a focus on ensuring it can withstand the harsh conditions of space. Among the critical evaluations conducted was thermal testing, a process designed to simulate the extreme temperature fluctuations the [...]
Industry Related News: August 2024 - United States NASA recently conducted a crucial thermal testing phase on the solar panels for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, ensuring they can endure the extreme conditions of space. The panels were placed in a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, simulating the [...]
Industry Related News: July 2024 - United States Astrobotic's new solar array technology has begun thermal vacuum testing (TVAC), marking a critical phase in its development. TVAC testing involves placing the solar arrays in a vacuum chamber and exposing them to extreme temperature cycles, mimicking the harsh conditions they will face in space. [...]
