Astronauts have performed previous fire experiments aboard the ISS. In 2014, the Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS) experiment sought to guide strategies for extinguishing fires in microgravity.

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NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire), fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere following six successful missions involving controlled ...

A large fire has been lit inside an unmanned cargo ship in space in a daring Nasa experiment. The experiment, the first of three planned Nasa experiments on how big fires grow in space, an important ...

Nasa have released two videos of a large fire that was lit inside an unmanned cargo ship in space in a daring experiment. The experiment, the first of three planned Nasa experiments on how big fires ...

NASA ignited another set of space fire experiments last week when Saffire IV lit a number of longer, stronger flames inside Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft. Saffire, NASA’s Spacecraft Fire ...

Understanding how fire spreads in a microgravity environment is critical to the safety of astronauts who live and work in space. And while NASA has conducted studies aboard the space shuttle and ...

After eight years of experimenting with flames in space, NASA lit a fire inside a cargo spacecraft for the last time and sent its Saffire experiment toward a burning reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

Nasa has been setting fires in space. Why? It's an experiment to understand how fires develop and how flames spread in microgravity. The space agency's three-part Saffire experiment was completed on 4 ...

Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed an average of seven million acres each year. And with rising global temperatures from climate change, the threat is growing exponentially. Researchers at labs and ...

Playing with fire is considered dangerous, especially aboard a laboratory orbiting 250 miles over Earth. However, NASA International Space Station astronauts have now deliberately started a series of ...