Testy środowiskowe Oriona zakończoneOrion completes testing at Plum Brookby Jeff Foust — March 15, 2020
The Orion spacecraft built for the Artemis 1 mission at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Ohio after completing environmental testing there. Credit: NASA/Marvin SmithWASHINGTON — The Orion spacecraft that will fly on the first launch of the Space Launch System has completed testing at an Ohio facility and will soon be shipped back to the Kennedy Space Center for final launch preparations.
NASA held a ceremony March 14 at Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, run by the Glenn Research Center, to mark the completion of environmental testing of the Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 mission. Orion arrived at Plum Brook in November for thermal vacuum and electromagnetic environment testing.
Those tests were “extremely successful,” said Jules Schneider, director of assembly, test and launch operations for Orion at Lockheed Martin, in an interview. The thermal vacuum tests, where the spacecraft was subjected to temperatures ranging from about –155 to 150 degrees Celsius, were completed in 47 days instead of the planned 63 days. (...)
https://spacenews.com/orion-completes-testing-at-plum-brook/Orion Wraps Up Testing in Ohio for First Artemis Mission to the MoonBy Mike Killian, on March 15th, 2020
Some of the NASA Glenn Research Center / Plum Brook Station crew with the Orion spacecraft for Artemis-1, after a successful 4-month test campaign simulating the conditions it will go through in space for the Artemis moon missions. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.comNASA’s Orion spacecraft for the first Artemis mission to return Americans to the moon has wrapped up a near 4-month long environmental testing campaign at the agency’s Glenn Research Center / Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, marking a big milestone towards the Artemis-1 mission expected to launch in late 2021.
It’s the final stretch of major testing before integration with the mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for flight, subjecting it to the same temperatures and electromagnetic environment it will experience in the vacuum of space. Meanwhile, the SLS it will launch on is currently at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi preparing for a test fire campaign this summer.
Credit: NASAWatch as NASA officials talk to media and celebrate the end of Orion’s environmental testing campaign at Plum Brook Station on March 14, 2020. Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.comWith Orion’s space environmental testing now complete, the spacecraft will head to its launch site at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the agency’s unique ‘Super Guppy’ aircraft, but it has to be transported across over 40 miles of rural Ohio roads to Mansfield Lahm Airport first. It’s currently expected to arrive at KSC on March 24, where it will then be examined for any leaks or damage that could have occurred in transport.By June, technicians will be ready to install its power-producing solar arrays and begin final processing and integration for the launch of Artemis-1. Both the SLS rocket and spacecraft will finally come together inside KSC’s iconic Vehicle Assembly Building some time in the spring of 2021, where all of NASA’s Saturn V Apollo moon rockets and space shuttle stacks were raised and readied for flight. (...)
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