Industry Related News September 2026: NASA’s ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat is designed to demonstrate a new propulsion system that combines chemical and electrospray technologies, but before the spacecraft can operate in orbit, engineers must verify that its hardware can withstand the thermal and environmental conditions of space. As part of its pre-launch [...]
Industry Related News August 2026: As NASA prepares for future Artemis missions to the Moon, engineers are putting increasingly advanced hardware through rigorous testing designed to answer one critical question: Will it work when it is exposed to the extreme conditions of space? At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, specialized test facilities allow engineers [...]
Industry Related News July 2026: Artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, aerospace systems, and next-generation electronics all have one thing in common: they're generating more heat than ever before. According to a recent article from the Thermal Management Expo, five major trends—including liquid cooling, advanced semiconductor packaging, stricter battery safety regulations, and new thermal interface [...]
Industry Related News June 2026: As NASA prepares its Dragonfly rotorcraft for an ambitious mission to Saturn's moon Titan, one of the spacecraft's greatest challenges isn't flight—it's surviving the intense heat generated during atmospheric entry. Before Dragonfly can begin its scientific exploration, its thermal protection system must endure temperatures exceeding 4,500°F while shielding [...]
Industry Related News May 2026: NASA and Blue Origin recently completed environmental testing of the Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. While the mission itself is part of NASA’s Artemis lunar program, the thermal testing process behind the spacecraft is [...]
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 [...]
