For Some Reason, NASA Is Treating Orion’s Heat Shield Problems As A Secret
Bill nelson is in an enviable position. He gets to tell congress that they gave nasa a really stupid set of specifications for the architecture of sls and orion. Boeing is the prime contractor for the space launch system, the only rocket on which orion can launch. If orion's heat shield requires a full retest, it will necessitate another. Lockheed martin is on contract to deliver orion capsules to nasa through the artemis viii mission.
“multiple nasa officials said monday they now know the answer, but they're not telling. Instead, agency officials want to wait until more reviews are. Nasa finally knows what caused the erosion of the orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not. Arc jet complex at nasa’s ames research center in california’s silicon valley has been used to study unexpected heat shield issues found after orion capsule’s artemis i flight. — nasa has determined why the orion heat shield lost more material than expected on the artemis 1 mission but won’t disclose details until after it. For those who follow nasa's human spaceflight program, when the orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the. Nasa says it spent 15 years developing orion's heat shield, completing 1,000 tests and carefully assembling dozens of avcoat tiles that would hold orion together during rapid. Nasa is treating orion's heat shield problems as a secret (arstechnica. com) 25. Ars technica's stephen clark reports: For those who follow nasa's human spaceflight.