NASA Is Being Weirdly Secretive About What’s Wrong With Orion’s Heat Shield

NASA Is Being Weirdly Secretive About What’s Wrong With Orion’s Heat Shield

Artemis II Orion Heat Shield Installed: A Key Step Towards NASA’s Moon

One of the most important parts of a successful artemis 2 mission, orion’s heat shield, has been under the microscope since it first flew around the moon back in 2022. Nasa has determined why the orion heat shield lost more material than expected on artemis 1 but won’t disclose details until after it completes more tests. Nasa has identified the cause of orion's heat shield problem—but it's keeping it under wraps. The agency has refused to say why orion's heat shield cracked more than 100. 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.

Washington — a report by nasa’s inspector general has disclosed new details about problems with the orion spacecraft’s heat shield and other issues that delayed its first. Nasa and lockheed martin originally intended for orion's heat shield to be monolithic, or installed as a single unit, as it was for the apollo command module that went to. 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.

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