The pressure was so high, it lofted the entire test stand. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's inevitable. Testing of ...

NASA's LOFTID technology demonstration will inflate a heat shield six meters across and then deploy it from a Centaur upper stage for a reentry test. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — A payload hitching a ...

LITTLETON, CO. – The common saying that “space is hard” may need redefinition, given the increasing use of softgoods to fashion inflatable structures from airlocks to habitats for future lunar and ...

A NASA flight test designed to demonstrate the feasibility of inflatable spacecraft technology is coming down to the wire. The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) is the third in a series ...