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!

Sierra Space has completed a key test of its inflatable space habitat, as the company progresses toward launching and operating a private space station with Blue Origin before the end of the decade.

The pressure was so high, it lofted the entire test stand. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's inevitable. Testing of ...

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 has successfully completed an ultimate burst pressure (UBP) test of a full-size inflatable space station module, rupturing the 300-m 3 (3,230-ft. 2) structure at 77 psi—well above NASA’s ...

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 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 ...

Watch Sierra Space’s inflatable space habitat undergo its second ‘ultimate burst pressure’ test. Watch Sierra Space’s inflatable space habitat undergo its second ‘ultimate burst pressure’ test. is a ...

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 ...

Sierra Space’s Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) module is the size of a house and made from ultra-strong synthetic fiber. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 23, 2024 11:22 AM EST Get the Popular ...

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 ...