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Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 11, 2024 - NASA recently concluded the final mission of its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment, or Saffire, putting a blazing end to an eight-year series of investigations that provided insights into fire's beh
NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment series, Saffire, concluded its final mission with Saffire-VI, marking the end of an eight-year investigation
NASA's Saffire program conducted six experiments on uncrewed Cygnus supply vehicles to understand how fire behaves on spacecraft.
NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire), fittingly having it burn up in the Earth's atmosphere following six successful missions involving controlled fires in orbit. The agency's sixth and final experiment dubbed Saffire-VI traveled to the International Space Station in August, safely tucked inside an uncrewed Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. […]
The Saffire experiment set fire to a Cygnus cargo vehicle in orbit to learn how flames behave in space.