The new heat shield is called Pridwen, named after the shield donned by King Arthur. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A private ...

Bringing a spacecraft back to Earth means dealing with the intense heat of reentry. Heat shields can protect a vehicle from high temperatures, but the shield is destroyed in the process. The ESA is ...

Provo, Utah — (KUTV) Cutting, taping, and folding to make origami objects is not something you'd expect to find in a university engineering lab, but that's exactly what's happening at Brigham Young ...

The Pridwen heat shield is shaped like a shuttlecock to slow the spacecraft’s descent. Credit: Space Forge Space Forge has unveiled additional details about its unfolding, “origami” heat shield for ...