Watch high-powered gas guns blast space habitat (for science)

Watch high-powered gas guns blast space habitat (for science)

Sierra Space continues to put its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat designs through the wringer. After multiple stress tests that filled the inflatable space station modules with water until they burst like balloons, the private startup has transitioned to shooting their latest prototypes with hypervelocity light gas guns. And like the previous trials, the intense tests served an important purpose—in this case, making sure the…

Sierra Space Advances Space Station Technology With Hypervelocity Impact Testing at NASA White Sands

High-Speed Ballistic Tests Replicated Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Impacts to Help Refine the Shielding of the Company’s Expandable LIFE® Habitat LOUISVILLE, Colo. – April 24, 2025 – Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth, announced today that it recently conducted successful hypervelocity impact trials at NASA’s White Sands Test Facil…