The term car heat shield can apply to a few different things. When talking about protecting your upholstery, the term usually applies to sun shades for a car’s window.

Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere, its heat shield's outer surface is ...

The heat shields for both the Mars Sample Retrieval Lander and a Titan-bound mission, Dragonfly, are designed to be made from this material, called Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator.

Unlike ablative shields, which are always deployed, this one has been designed to "spring” out of a spacecraft, origami-style. It's made of alloy fabrics strong enough to withstand the heat of ...

Heat shields can protect a vehicle from high temperatures, but the shield is destroyed in the process. The ESA is working with UK-based Space Forge to change that.

It will need a heat shield to protect it from the glare of our nearest star, so engineers have designed the shield to guard the telescope's delicate optics. In addition, Webb is an infrared ...

The first of 800 volunteer bushfire trucks in Western Australia have been fitted with heat shields to help protect firefighters. The two trucks were retro-fitted with drop-down shields and ...

Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth’s atmosphere, its heat shield’s outer surface is sacrificed to protect the rest of the vehicle. The carbon fibers decompose, ...