Tag: EFT-1
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Videos: Delta 4-Heavy launch flashback
Get a preview of Thursday’s United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket flight in these video highlights packages from previous missions by the big booster for NASA and the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA’s Exploration Flight Test — Cape Canaveral (2014) NROL-15 — Cape Canaveral…
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Engineers finding lessons in nearly flawless Orion test flight
The Orion spacecraft descends under three main parachutes at the end of its first mission into space Dec. 5. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Charles White December’s first orbital test flight of NASA’s Orion crew capsule was almost perfect, but engineers are carefully analyzing 600 gigabytes of data recorded on…
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Redesign likely needed for Orion airbag system
U.S. Navy divers approach the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean. Two of the capsule’s five self-righting airbags are inflated. Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Charles White Engineers plan to redesign part of the Orion capsule’s self-righting flotation system that only partially engaged as the spacecraft splashed down in the…
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Lockheed Martin begins taking apart first flown Orion capsule
The Orion spacecraft inside the Launch Abort System Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston NASA’s Orion spacecraft achieved all but two of 87 demo objectives on its first orbital flight last month, but details on the capsule’s performance will require dismantling the spaceship’s outer skin in a careful procedure designed to…
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Video: Orion launch replays
Multiple different camera angles of the Delta 4-Heavy rocket blasting off with NASA’s Orion capsule for Exploration Flight Test No. 1 on Dec. 5
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Video: Orion flight preps
This video recaps the Orion spacecraft and its Delta 4-Heavy rocket preparations for launch on the Exploration Flight Test No. 1.
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Video: Inside Orion during high-speed re-entry
New video recorded during NASA’s Orion return through Earth’s atmosphere provides viewers a taste of what the vehicle endured as it returned through Earth’s atmosphere during its Dec. 5 flight test. The video begins 10 minutes before Orion’s 11:29 a.m. EST splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, just as the spacecraft was beginning to experience Earth’s…
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Photos: One more look at Orion’s launch
Take another look back at the Orion spaceship’s launch atop a Delta 4-Heavy rocket on Dec. 5 with this gallery of NASA and United Launch Alliance photos. Credit: NASA Credit: NASA Credit: NASA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: NASA Credit: NASA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: ULA Credit: NASA…
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Orion is back home
Orion passes the KSC Visitor Complex. Credit: NASA Completing a 2,700-mile journey across the United States, America’s inaugural Orion spaceship arrived back home at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, just under two weeks after its trial by fire. Orion, tucked in a shipping container, made the trek back to Florida from Naval Base San…
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