University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, ...

MDA added 1,086 companies to its $151B SHIELD contract as the vehicle enters the task order phase for homeland missile defense work.

China has begun hardening its Tiangong space station against the growing threat of orbital debris, installing new layers of ...

Musk’s space company had avoided much of the scrutiny, criticism, and regulatory burden that comes with going public.

With this funding, Digantara has raised $64.5 million in total as it moves beyond space situational awareness into missile ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories developed a rapid method for simulating heat shield materials in ...

Watch SpaceX launch 29 Starlink satellites as a Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral shortly after midnight on Dec. 15 ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

Human-rating means designing, testing and approving every space system to be safe enough for people. It covers the rocket, ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

Modern life depends heavily on electronics that can survive in extreme environments. Satellites that provide TV broadcasts, GPS signals, phone services and internet must operate reliably for many ...