Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will bring the following American astronauts and the first international astronaut to the region of the South Pole of the Moon. On Thursday, NASA announced the latest updates on its lunar exploration plans.
A group of experts examined the results of NASA’s research on the heat shield of the spacecraft Orion, after suffering an unexpected loss of carbonized material in its re-entry into the atmosphere during the flight of the paratrooper. De prueba crewed Artemis II, los ingenierán seguirán preparando a Orion con el escudo térmic ya montado en la capsule.
The agency also announced that it now targets April 2026 for the launch of Artemis II and mid-2027 for Artemis III. The updated schedules of the missions also contemplate the time necessary to address the systems of environmental control and vital support of Orion.
“The Artemis campaign is the most daring, technically challenging and collaborative international initiative that humanity has ever proposed,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. We have made significant progress in the Artemis campaign during the last four years, and I am proud of the work that our technical teams have done to prepare us for this next step forward in the campaign on Orion’s vital support systems to support the operations of the crew during Artemis II. Tenemos que hacer bien este próximo de prueba. Así es como la campaña Artemis triunfará”.
The decision of the agency SE production después de que una investigación exhaustive de United Nations problem con el escudo térmico de Artemis I demosara que el escudo térmico de Artemis II es capáz de mantener a salvo a la crewación durante de la conmodelación de la mismodico. Orion cuando entre en la atmosphere terrestre y reduzca su velocidad de unos 40.000 kilometers por hora (casi 25.000 miles por hora) a unos 520 km/h (unas 325 mph) antes de que sus de unus paracaje semro de unos paracaguen. Ocean Pacific
“During all our process to investigate the phenomenon of the thermal shield and determine a path to follow, we have remained faithful to the fundamental values of NASA; we put safety and data-based analysis first,” said Catherine Koerner, associate administrator of The Direction of Mission Development of Exploration Systems at the headquarters of NASA in Washington. para las misiones crewadas a Marte.”
NASA will continue to assemble the components of its Space Launch System or SLS rocket (a process that began in November) and prepare it for its integration with Orion for Artemis II.
During the boreal autumn, NASA, together with an independent review team, established the technical cause of a problem observed after the unmanned test flight of Artemis I, in which the carbonized material of the dismation of the disc is esprada. An exhaustive analysis, which included more than 100 tests in different installations across the country, determined that the thermal shield of Artemis I did not allow sufficient evacuation of the gases generated in the demino de lovocée material, in the room. de la interior devocoe del material to agritara yc desprindera. The Avcoat is designed to wear out as it heats up and is a key material in the thermal protection system that protects Orion and its crew from temperatures of almost 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (7,000 C). 2. When Orion crosses the Earth’s atmosphere Al regresar de la Luna. Although during Artemis I there was no crew on board Orion, the data show that the temperature in the interior of Orion would have been pleasant and safe if there had been crew on board.
The engineering teams are already assembling and integrating the ship Orion for Artemis III based on the lessons learned from Artemis I and applying improvements in the form of fabricating the thermal shields for the returns of the lojezaadas las de aljedarasiones alike. y permeability constant. La reentrada atmospherique doble (“skip entry”) is necessary for the return from the velocities foreseen for the moon landing missions.
Victor, Cristina, Jeremy and you have been following all aspects of this decision and we are grateful for the disposition of NASA to weigh all options and take decisions in the best interests of flights. We are enthusiastic about flying with the Artemis II mission and continuing to pave the way for continuous human exploration of the Moon and Mars,” declared Reid Wiseman, NASA astronaut and commander of Artemis II. “Hace poco estuvimos en el Centro Espacial Kennedy de la agency en Florida y pudimos ver los los propulsores de nuestro hehete SLS, la stage Central y la nave Orion. It is inspiring to see the scale of this effort, conocer a las personas que trabaja en esta machine , y no podemos esperar a hacerla volar a la Luna”.
Wiseman, along with NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, will fly aboard the Artemis II test flight, which will last 10 days on the Moon. regreso The flight will provide valuable data on the systems of Orion necessary to support the crew in their voyage to the deep space and bring them safely and safely back home, including the renovation of the air of the case, including interacting los humanos con el resto del hardware y software de la nave espacial.
With Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever, learn to live and work further from our home and prepare for the future human exploration of the red planet. The SLS of NASA, the terrestrial exploration systems and the Orion ship, together with the landing system for human beings, the new generation space suits, the lunar gateway space station and the future exploration exploration sites of NASA for the exploration of the Espacio profundo.
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