Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign watched fragments of two meteors as they ramped up the heat from room temperature to the temperature it reaches as it enters Earth’s ...

Abstract: The Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS) provides a quick-turnaround, low-cost platform to conduct atmospheric entry experiments. KRUPS is designed to test multiple types of ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the re-entry of a specific rocket stage. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Russian cargo spacecraft Progress 92 is all set to make a planned destructive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere as the single-use ship completes its mission. According to NASA, the unpiloted Roscosmos ...

Abstract: The design of next-generation, high-speed flight vehicles requires a combination of robust flow simulations and low-uncertainty ground test data. Although high-fidelity modeling advancements ...

India registered a new win with one of the Indian Air Force Group Captains, Shubhanshu Shukla, making it to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as a part of the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space ...

Technical papers from the AIAA 19th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 1981, and the AIAA 16th Thermophysics Conference, June 1981. https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...