SpaceX’s experimental test of metallic heat shield tiles for the Starship vehicle ended in failure, with the tiles degrading rapidly under extreme thermal stress. The setback exposes a significant ...

UA Civil Engineering Professor Tribikam Kundu is designing a way to test the thermal-protection tiles on a re-useable space vehicle to prevent accidents on the ground and during re-entry into the ...

New Tesla Solar Roof tiles in a different color have been spotted at the automaker’s test facility near Fremont factory in California. When Tesla first unveiled its Solar Roof tiles in 2016, the ...

Two spacewalking astronauts pulled out a caulk gun and high-tech putty and tested a method for patching shuttle thermal tiles. It was the fourth spacewalk since Endeavour arrived at the international ...