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 ...

Water slowly expands each inflatable toy until the material can no longer hold its shape. The gradual buildup makes the final ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. NASA ...

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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 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 ...