{"id":214264,"date":"2021-03-29T23:39:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasas-orion-capsule-begins-new-water-drop-tests\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T23:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:39:39","slug":"nasas-orion-capsule-begins-new-water-drop-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasas-orion-capsule-begins-new-water-drop-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA’s Orion capsule begins new water drop tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NASA’s Orion capsule begins new water drop tests<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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NASA\u00a0engineers\u00a0at the\u00a0Virginia-based\u00a0Langley Research Center have\u00a0begun a new series<\/a> of four water-impact drop tests using a test version of the agency\u2019s\u00a0Orion spacecraft capsule<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tests, conducted at Langley\u2019s\u00a0Landing and Impact Research Facility Hydro Impact Basin in Hampton, will simulate various\u00a0landing\u00a0scenarios in order to help researchers get a clearer picture of what Orion and its crew may experience when landing in the\u00a0Pacific Ocean\u00a0after the planned\u00a0Artemis missions<\/a>\u00a0to the moon.<\/p>\n

Orion will launch on NASA\u2019s\u00a0new heavy-lift rocket<\/a>, the 322-foot-tall\u00a0Space Launch System (SLS), which is set to be used in\u00a0Artemis I at the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the first Artemis mission, the SLS rocket will\u00a0send an uncrewed\u00a0Orion\u00a0on a flight around the\u00a0lunar planet<\/a>\u00a0and back to\u00a0Earth\u00a0\u2014 marking the first of three missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA plans to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024 in order\u00a0to \u201cexplore more of the lunar surface than ever before\u201d and prepare for the next step: sending astronauts to\u00a0Mars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While\u00a0engineers\u00a0officially started testing with a rough model of Orion\u00a0in 2011<\/a>, NASA had performed a series of previous drop tests with what they called a\u00a0Ground Test Article<\/a>\u00a0at the basin in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the new tests are using a new configuration of the crew module \u2014 built at\u00a0lead contractor Lockheed Martin\u2019s facility in\u00a0Colorado\u00a0\u2014 that \u201crepresents the spacecraft\u2019s final design,\u201d\u00a0according to a release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cData from the water impact tests are part of the formal qualification test program to fulfill structural design and requirement verification before\u00a0Artemis II<\/a>, NASA\u2019s first Artemis mission with crew,\u201d NASA wrote. \u201cInformation will help feed final computer models for loads and structures prior to the\u00a0Artemis II\u00a0flight test.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An Orion capsule being transported on June 14, 2011.<\/figcaption>
NASA \/ Carla Thomas<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In\u00a0a previous statement<\/a>, NASA wrote that there had been several structural updates and improvements\u00a0to the crew module and noted that data from the 2021 tests would be included\u00a0in final computer modeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is less about trying to reduce model uncertainty and more about loading up to design limits, bringing the model higher in elevation and higher in load, not testing to requirements, but testing to extremes,\u201d\u00a0Chris Tarkenton, technical lead, explained in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of possibilities will be whittled down to some critical cases. We\u2019ll examine the data and make sure the models correlate to test and adjust models as needed to gain confidence,\u201d Project Manager Bryan Russ said. \u201cIt helps us to know that the models are reliable and representative of what will be experienced during flight scenarios.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#NASA’s Orion capsule begins new water drop tests” NASA\u00a0engineers\u00a0at the\u00a0Virginia-based\u00a0Langley Research Center have\u00a0begun a new series of four water-impact drop tests using a test version of the agency\u2019s\u00a0Orion spacecraft capsule.\u00a0 The tests, conducted at Langley\u2019s\u00a0Landing and Impact Research Facility Hydro Impact Basin in Hampton, will simulate various\u00a0landing\u00a0scenarios in order to help researchers get a clearer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/orion-capsule-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[99931,5072,5026,5019,9724],"class_list":["post-214264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-29-21","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}