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Airbus performing Orion ESM checkout for trip to U.S. launch site
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- 3,000 word Orion ESM update by Philip Sloss.
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Re: Airbus performing Orion ESM checkout for trip to U.S. launch site
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06/15/2018 01:30 pm »
Great work with the article, but it is a bit like being sat at a dinner table and saying "I'm full" after half way. The test failure was deep in the article and could have been an article alone. They are so good, but I would split the articles a bit more as some are really long and usually can't be read in one sitting. But again, excellent work.
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Awesome article. Had not heard about the PQM failure.
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Shaking Orion’s solar wings
European Space Agency, ESA
Published on Jul 17, 2018
Testing the solar wings of the European service module that will provide power, water, air and electricity to NASA’s Orion Moon module.
The solar arrays Orion will use to produce electricity are tested at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands. Folded for launch, the fragile solar panels need to survive the rumbling into space aboard the most powerful rocket ever built, NASA’s Space Launch System.
Orion’s solar panels will be folded inside the rocket fairing on the first leg of the trip around the Moon. Once released from the rocket they will unfold and rotate towards the Sun to start delivering power.
To make sure the solar panels will work after the intense launch, ESA engineers are putting them through rigorous tests that exceed what they will experience on launch day. This includes vibrating them on a shaking table and placing them in front of enormous speakers that recreate the harsh launch conditions.
Orion will eventually fly beyond the Moon with astronauts, the first time a spacecraft will support humans with European hardware will also be the farthest humans ever travel from Earth. The first mission – without astronauts – is getting ready for launch in 2019.
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Orion ESM - Test of the engine gimbal system
Airbus Defence and Space
Published on Jul 18, 2018
The European Service Module (ESM) for NASA'S spaceship Orion is currently being tested at Airbus Space systems in Bremen. The team is fully concentrating on the various tests that are ongoing. Just recently it was a set of tests of the Thrust Vector System (TVC).
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