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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's one big bang for space station safety. Sierra Space deliberately blew up its first full-scale space station module prototype recently to get ready for future space missions that could take ...

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 ...

Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company at the forefront of creating and building the future of space transportation and infrastructure for low-Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization, announced ...

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 ...