Bringing a spacecraft back to Earth means dealing with the intense heat of reentry. Heat shields can protect a vehicle from high temperatures, but the shield is destroyed in the process. The ESA is ...

Provo, Utah — (KUTV) Cutting, taping, and folding to make origami objects is not something you'd expect to find in a university engineering lab, but that's exactly what's happening at Brigham Young ...

BYU Engineering is well known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, an undergraduate student made a significant discovery—a new ...

The Pridwen heat shield is shaped like a shuttlecock to slow the spacecraft’s descent. Credit: Space Forge Space Forge has unveiled additional details about its unfolding, “origami” heat shield for ...