Credit: Axiom Space WASHINGTON — SpaceX will replace the heat shield on the next Crew Dragon spacecraft flying to the International Space Station after it failed inspections, but NASA says there ...

SpaceX has made some changes to its signature crew spacecraft, the Crew Dragon capsule ... in four small areas of the capsule’s heat shield, Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of ...

The company is reinforcing the Dragon’s heat shield after finding more erosion than expected, Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX’s vice president of build and flight reliability, said Tuesday at a ...

All of SpaceX’s initial production will be used for domestic in-house applications including the heat shields of the Dragon spacecraft, and the Falcon 9 second stage, which is designed to return ...

SpaceX typically removes the Crew Dragon spacecraft's heat shield after each flight and refurbishes the shield's composite structure, adding new ablative thermal protection tiles for each mission.

There has not been a hypergol leak during the return of a crewed Dragon mission nor any contamination with the heat shield causing excessive wear," the NASA statement reads, in part. "SpaceX and ...

Photo Credit: SpaceX Dragon’s PICA-X heat shield protected the spacecraft during reentry from temperatures reaching more than 3,000 degrees F. SpaceX worked closely with NASA to develop PICA-X ...

SpaceX has already had a fairly busy month, with the recent launch and docking of the Crew Dragon at the International ... s testing of the spacecraft’s heat shield, which is one of its most ...

The Ax-3 astronauts splashed down in their SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule amid ... to reach about 3,500 degrees on the capsule's heat shield — with top speeds of 17,500 mph, Anderson said.

Early Tuesday morning, the SpaceX Dragon carrying Williams ... To keep the astronauts safe, Dragon employs a heat shield to keep it from burning up during re-entry. The drag helped slow down ...