DLR, Stanford Tackle Re-entry Blackout

German aerospace center DLR is teaming with Stanford University to test solutions to the familiar but often tense communications blackout that occurs when manned spacecraft re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. The blackout is caused when the heat generated by re-entry creates an electrically charged...

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