Industry Related News: United States – (November, 2019): The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover has been in early development since 2014 with a launch schedule leading to a 2020 departure. The rover now finds itself in France and will enter a thermal testing chamber to verify that its components can withstand the rigors [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (October, 2019): On Friday, October 18th, NASA announced that the Mars 2020 rover is currently going through clean-room testing and quality checks with JPL's Engineering team. The team is currently ensuring that all components, which were assembled earlier this year at JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility, are in [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (September, 2019): The UK Space Agency announced Tuesday at the UK Space Conference 2019 that it would be working more closely with the Australian Space Agency to increase research and co-development of the hypersonic rocket engine dubbed SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) currently in development from Oxfordshire-based [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (August, 2019): The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover has been in early development since 2014 with a launch schedule leading to a 2020 departure. Teams at Airbus Defense and Space’s facility in Stevenage, England, north of London, assembled the Rosalind Franklin rover in a special ultra-clean factory [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (July, 2019): NASA recently announced that the Orion Spacecraft, which is slated to make its journey to the Moon in 2024, is about to enter its thermal testing. The thermal testing will take place at Plum Brook Station in a custom newly created Spacecraft testing chamber from [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (June, 2019): NASA has recently announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to blast off into Earth's orbit in 2021, has finished its final vacuum thermal test. The thermal tests, which varied between minus 235°F to upwards of 215°F, were a test of the [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (May, 2019): A NASA research team at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio will be utilizing the Glenn Research Center test facility to perform a range of environmental tests on the Orion Spacecraft in order to calibrate station systems. Possibly one of the most unique thermal [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (April, 2019): A team of MIT research engineers has recently discovered a new polymer material that, through thermal material testing, shows that the polymer material conducts heat rather than trapping it as most other polymer materials do. Initial thermal tests indicate that the material is potentially a [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (March, 2019): SpaceX is reportedly performing heat shield thermal testing on its Starship spacecraft project, according to CEO Elon Musk. In a series of posts on Twitter this week, Musk unveiled a tantalizing glimpse at a SpaceX's thermal test of the hexagonal heat shield tiles that will [...]
Industry Related News: United States – (February, 2019): A research team at UCLA, along with collaborators at eight other research institutions, have created an extremely durable and light-weight ceramic material. Thermal testing performed on the material has shown that the material can withstand extreme temperature swings from -200°C to 900°C, even when the [...]
