Pridwen Heatshield
Space Forge Limited- DesignNon-ablative, shuttlecock-style deployable heat shield
- FunctionAtmospheric reentry protection for in-space-manufactured payload recovery
- Flight heritageParabolic flight deployment test (May 2025); operational on ForgeStar-1 (June 2025)
Pridwen is a novel heatshield designed for safe atmospheric re-entry and satellite recovery, utilizing a radiation-based thermal protection…