The Shenzhou-21 crew is expected to conduct spacewalks and install anti-debris shields on Tiangong's exterior.
Space Armor™ tiles are lighter and thinner than traditional Whipple shields and are easy to install.
Traditional ballistic Whipple shields block radio signals and can create more debris when impacted.
The astronauts installed debris shields, inspected external equipment, and repaired malfunctioning components with help from ground controllers and the robotic arm.
CSC’s MSP/Plasteel™ material shields electronics to survive much longer in orbit with minimal bit-flip errors.
Astronaut WANG Jie and astronaut CHEN Zhongrui installed more debris shields.
The 1.5-meter POIROT concept incorporated multiple large radiation shields to improve cooling performance.
Rocket Lab’s Space Structures Complex will support development and manufacture of carbon composite spacecraft buses, structural panels and assemblies, satellite dispensers, aerostructures, heat shields, composite overwrap pressure vessels, solar panel substrates, and launch vehicle structures.
Rocket Lab is establishing a Space Structures Complex in Middle River, Maryland to support development and manufacture of carbon composite spacecraft buses, structural panels and assemblies, satellite dispensers, aerostructures and heat shields, composite overwrap pressure vessels, solar panel substrates, and launch vehicle structures.
Ken Shields, senior director of business development for in-space R&D, manufacturing and emerging markets at Sierra Space, expected that environmental tests would be completed and Dream Chaser shipped to Cape Canaveral by the end of the year.
AFC shields incumbent 6 GHz operations from RF interference by checking a database of registered users.
Spaceit’s platform is used in large-scale live-fire cyber defence exercises such as NATO CCDCOE’s Locked Shields, which involves over 3,000 participants.
TatukGIS provides a built-in SVG symbols library that includes shields commonly used to label road and highway maps in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other countries.
Northrop Grumman produced 11 large composite structures for the ULA Delta IV Heavy, including three thermal shields, three centerbody structures, the payload fairing, the composite interstage on the center common booster core, the nose cones on the two strap-on boosters, and one set of X-panel structures.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded SpaceX an $8,500,000 contract to investigate advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for heat shields that protect hypersonic vehicles in flight.
AeroCube 10 researchers are investigating the impact of radiation on solar cells using a set of solar cells with varying thickness radiation shields, dosimeters, and micro charged particle telescopes.