Posted on 11/30/2020 9:13:41 PM PST by BenLurkin
Engineers are racing to fix a failed piece of equipment on NASA’s future deep-space crew capsule Orion ahead of its first flight to space. It may require months of work to replace and fix. Right now, engineers at NASA and Orion’s primary contractor, Lockheed Martin, are trying to figure out the best way to fix the component and how much time the repairs are going to take.
In early November, engineers at Lockheed Martin working on Orion noticed that a power component inside the vehicle had failed, according to an internal email and an internal PowerPoint presentation seen by The Verge. The component is within one of the spacecraft’s eight power and data units, or PDUs. The PDUs are the “main power/data boxes,” for Orion according to the email, responsible for activating key systems that Orion needs during flight.
Orion is a critical part of NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024. The cone-shaped capsule is designed to launch on top of a future rocket called the Space Launch System, or SLS, a vehicle that NASA has been building for the last decade. To test out both of these systems’ capabilities, NASA plans to launch an uncrewed Orion capsule on top of the SLS on the rocket’s first flight in late 2021 — a mission called Artemis I.
While the SLS still has many key tests to undergo before that flight, the Orion capsule slated to fly on that first mission is mostly assembled, waiting in Florida at NASA’s Operation and Checkout Facility at Kennedy Space Center. NASA had planned to transfer the Orion capsule to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at KSC on December 7th, though that rollout may be postponed due to this issue.
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Important article explaining one reason the Orion mission is going to have major issues not yet disclosed to the public:
https://www.aulis.com/orion_vanallens.htm
The entire web site is worth a long, hard look:
https://www.aulis.com/index.html
Hmm, must be time for another multi-billion dollar injection into NASAs diversity efforts. Engineering is just a side job.
Unfinished capsule to launch on top of unfinished booster to link up with not-even-started lunar lander - in time for 2014 lunar landing.
Put me down for “not going to happen, not even close”
Like a Buick where you need to lift the engine to get to some of the plugs?
With Lockheed/NASA on the case, you’ll be lucky if you see this turd launch by 2071. Manwhile, Elon Musk will be sipping tea with his whore in a nother galaxy.
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Sure bet!
Regards,
Oops. Definitely not going to make it to the moon six years ago!
Eccentrica Gallumbitts of Eroticon Six?
Note to NASA. If biden steals this election NASA will never land another American on the moon or anyone else for that matter.
With the installation of our new tyrannical Coviet regime under Slo Joe and Cameltoe anybody stupid enough to trust their lives to affirmative action engineering in the new era Space Force will likely be burnt to crisps like so many of the Cosmonauts of Soviet Russia.
Give it to Elon Musk and SpaceX, they’ll have it fixed by noon at 1% of the cost....
The Russians consider a manned moon mission technically impossible at this time.
See post #2.
So it looks like we will be the only ones cruel enough to send folks out to their deaths there.
Dang! Beat me to it.
The Conclusion (from the referenced link below):
This BIRD Radiation Detector report seemingly confirms that the dosimetry radiation data for the manned Apollo lunar flights was collected while remaining in LEO. Whether deliberately or unwittingly, NASA’s own data has blown apart the notion that a manned Apollo crew ever traveled to the Moon.
https://www.aulis.com/orion_vanallens.htm
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Since the Apollo manned missions to the Moon never happened, we can all forget what we actually saw - this data completely nullifies our memories and our lying eyes. Her next paper will be “The Lie of The Spherical Earth - Showing Proof That The Sun Revolves Around the Earth at The Center of the Universe”.
Hard to see how this project, SLS, or even the Space Station continues under Biden, so this problem is no big deal.
We’re pretty much done with manned space, at for NASA, and the money freed up from that is a nice chunk of change that Biden’s people can hand out to their friends.
...unless, of course, we hold the Senate.
“Like a Buick where you need to lift the engine to get to some of the plugs?”
Decades ago I worked on a Winnebego that ran crappy. I was able to replace all of the plugs but one. They put the house right on top of it...I tried for hours, then told the owner, sorry, no dice.
Listen to this Orion astronaut—I guess he does not believe his lying eyes either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5dPsu66Kw
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