Following a successful inflatable habitat burst test in December 2022, Lockheed Martin conducted another subscale burst test on June 14 in Colorado—and like the first time, it went off with a bang!

When developing new technology, rarely is having it explode a good thing. Unless you’re demonstrating that an inflatable habitat is capable of surviving environments beyond the extremes of space. As ...

The grey side of a metal test stand curves upward like a stunted elbow from the bottom right. Its the profile of what's left of the historic Titan rocket's test stand. In the image's center, a cloud ...

Sierra Space has been conducting tests on a sub-scale version of its LIFE inflatable habitat. Credit: Sierra Space COLORADO SPRINGS—Sierra Space has successfully completed a burst pressure test on a ...

The few space stations humanity deployed into Earth orbit over the past few decades have all been made from the ground up as full-scale structures. That means their elements have been transported in ...

Sierra Space recently conducted a burst test of a subscale version of its Large Inflatable Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat. The one-third scale module burst at 192 pounds per square inch (PSI), ...

Witnessing an explosion involving a carefully constructed piece of space kit doesn’t seem like a good thing, but engineers at Sierra Space was entirely happy to see the LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible ...

Sierra Space successfully completed a burst test of its full-scale LIFE inflatable space station at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The violent burst only occurred after LIFE (Large Inflatable ...

The International Space Station is nearing the end of its life and will soon be crashed back to Earth in spectacular fashion. This means there's a gap in the market for a new space station, and Sierra ...