{"id":153125,"date":"2022-12-18T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-heatshield-promises-advanced-space-exploration-and-help-to-fight-forest-fires"},"modified":"2022-12-18T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:24:42","slug":"nasas-heatshield-promises-advanced-space-exploration-and-help-to-fight-forest-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-heatshield-promises-advanced-space-exploration-and-help-to-fight-forest-fires","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s heatshield promises advanced space exploration and help to fight forest fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-heatshield-promises-advanced-space-exploration-and-help-to-fight-forest-fires2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At number 14 on IE\u2019s 22 best innovations of 2022, is a new heatshield technology from NASA that\u2019s helping put out fires.<\/p>\n<p>As the global space industry gears up for human space exploration of Mars and beyond, it will need technologies that make atmospheric entries innumerably safer.<\/p>\n<p>It essentially acts as a massive inflatable break system for spacecraft, making spaceflight much safer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ibrahim Can\/Interesting Engineering\/NASA<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where NASA\u2019s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) heatshield technology comes in. This year, the US space agency successfully tested the novel heatshield technology in orbit for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At number 14 on IE\u2019s 22 best innovations of 2022, is a new heatshield technology from NASA that\u2019s helping put out fires. As the global space industry gears up for human space exploration of Mars and beyond, it will need technologies that make atmospheric entries innumerably safer. It essentially acts as a massive inflatable break [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}