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!

The company conducted a spectacular burst test on a full-scale LIFE module to assess the strength of its pressure shell. Reading time 2 minutes You can’t fly an inflatable module to space without ...

A 300-cubic-meter inflatable module exceeded NASA safety margins by more than 20% in a recent burst test. Credit: Sierra Space LONDON — Sierra Space has completed a second full-scale burst test of an ...

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 ...

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 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), ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sierra Space, a leading pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced today that it is on the ...

The ability to mathematically relate peel and burst test data could allow results to be taken more rapidly to production and quality control personnel. Peel and burst tests are used by both users and ...

HyImpulse, Technologies in partnership with Greek advanced composite manufacturer, Adamant Composites, is proud to announce the successful completion of a hydrostatic burst test of a groundbreaking ...