Author Topic: NASA creates working group to get Orion ESM back on schedule  (Read 5754 times)

Offline Chris Bergin

A short ish article Orion status via L2, ASAP etc. Shiny Orion Nathan render to make it pretty :)

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/11/nasa-working-group-orion-esm-schedule/
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If Orion (including ESM) can't be ready, is there a chance NASA might line up an alternate payload?  I doubt it's possible for 2018 with it being so close but how applicable is it for the launches in the 2020s?  If the SLS is going to be a better workhorse than STS I'd hope changing the payload at the top of the rocket would be vastly easier than the payload bay of the old shuttles.

I know, probably a long shot.


...where's Darth Vader to put thing back on schedule when you need him?  :P
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Am I following this right ?

ESM is apparently late, with a requirement of tolerating 30 days on the pad and 100 days on the SLS.

They've just been informed of a new requirement, of tolerating 120 days on the pad and 310 days attached to SLS.

Is that correct ?

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Am I following this right ?

ESM is apparently late, with a requirement of tolerating 30 days on the pad and 100 days on the SLS.

They've just been informed of a new requirement, of tolerating 120 days on the pad and 310 days attached to SLS.

Is that correct ?

Yes, but two seperate things. Chris is doing a round up.

ESM is late, not apparently - it is late.

Also,

Yes, they have a new requirement about stacked Orion timescale.

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"capable of tolerating [...] 120 days of pad exposure time and 310 days of being attached"

Does any other spacecraft (past, current or realistically envisioned) come close to meeting these?
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"capable of tolerating [...] 120 days of pad exposure time and 310 days of being attached"

Does any other spacecraft (past, current or realistically envisioned) come close to meeting these?

For Shuttle, launch pad stay time was up to 180 days.  The limit was governed by the SRBs though which could be kept vertically stacked for up to one year, but of which only 180 days maximum was allowed in the mated configuration.

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"capable of tolerating [...] 120 days of pad exposure time and 310 days of being attached"

Does any other spacecraft (past, current or realistically envisioned) come close to meeting these?

What are the limiting pieces of spacecraft hardware or systems that are expected to be limiting?
What dictates such extended durations? Does the ESM design accommodate these stay times?
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"capable of tolerating [...] 120 days of pad exposure time and 310 days of being attached"

Does any other spacecraft (past, current or realistically envisioned) come close to meeting these?

For Shuttle, launch pad stay time was up to 180 days.  The limit was governed by the SRBs though which could be kept vertically stacked for up to one year, but of which only 180 days maximum was allowed in the mated configuration.
180 days on an ET sure would darken her up, but would hardly compare to ET-94 which developed quite the tan from all her UV exposure.
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"capable of tolerating [...] 120 days of pad exposure time and 310 days of being attached"

Does any other spacecraft (past, current or realistically envisioned) come close to meeting these?

What are the limiting pieces of spacecraft hardware or systems that are expected to be limiting?
What dictates such extended durations? Does the ESM design accommodate these stay times?

For Orion pad stay durations the concern is with exposure to winds and the fatigue effect this may have on the frangible bolts between the command module (CM) and the service module (SM).

Orion also needs to tolerate up to 9 vehicle moves according to Chris's article - I'm guessing that moves would also place additional load cycles on these frangible bolts.
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More on this potential failure mode from the NAC HEO Cmte slides. What is meant by, "alternate fatigue spectrum?"
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More on this potential failure mode from the NAC HEO Cmte slides. What is meant by, "alternate fatigue spectrum?"

It believe it means how often stress events are applied to the spacecraft.
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