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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #20 on: 04/29/2020 02:38 pm »
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The launch abort motor is integrated with the jettison motor for Orion’s launch abort system (LAS) for Artemis II, inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 15, 2020. The launch abort and jettison motors are two of three motors on the LAS. The LAS will be positioned atop the Orion crew module and is designed to protect astronauts if a problem arises during launch by pulling the spacecraft away from a failing rocket. Artemis II will take the first humans in orbit around the Moon in the 21st century. Photo credit: Lockheed Martin

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #22 on: 06/16/2020 04:35 pm »
Hopefully this is not an ESM-2 picture...

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Hopefully this is not an ESM-2 picture...

Yep, that was an old bare-structure ESM-2 picture:

https://twitter.com/spaceexplore/status/1273555763458441218
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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #24 on: 06/26/2020 06:46 am »
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Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Artemis II crew module is relocated into a clean room on June 10, 2020. Workers will perform tube welds of the propulsion system and the Environmental Control & Life Support Systems. Artemis II is the first crewed mission in a series of missions to the Moon and on to Mars. Artemis II will confirm all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space with astronauts aboard. As part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #25 on: 06/26/2020 01:21 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #26 on: 06/26/2020 05:24 pm »
Hopefully this is not an ESM-2 picture...

Yep, that was an old bare-structure ESM-2 picture:


I am an optimist so I believe that it is an ESM-3 picture.

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #27 on: 07/02/2020 03:03 pm »
Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Artemis II crew module adapter (CMA) is being relocated from the clean room to the Pressure Proof Cell for additional testing and maintenance. The CMA connects the crew module to the service module. Artemis II is the first crewed mission in a series of missions to the Moon and on to Mars. Artemis II will confirm all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space with astronauts aboard.
Jacques :-)

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #28 on: 07/08/2020 06:05 pm »
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Heat Shield Milestone Complete for First Orion Mission with Crew

Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently finished meticulously applying more than 180 blocks of ablative material to the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft set to carry astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II.

The heat shield is one of the most critical elements of Orion and protects the capsule and the astronauts inside from the nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures, about half as hot at the Sun, experienced during reentry through Earth’s atmosphere when coming home from lunar velocities.

Prior to installation, several large blocks of the ablative material called AVCOAT were produced at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. They were then shipped to Kennedy and machined into 186 unique smaller blocks before being applied by the technicians onto the heat shield’s underlying titanium skeleton and carbon fiber skin.

To continue preparing the heat shield, engineers will conduct non-destructive evaluations to look for voids in the bond lines, as well as measure the steps and gaps between the blocks. The gaps will be filled with adhesive material and then reassessed. The heatshield will then undergo a thermal test after which it will be sealed, painted and then taped to help weather on-orbit thermal conditions. Once all testing has been completed, later this year the heatshield will be installed and bolted to the crew module.

NASA is working to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. Orion, along with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Human Landing System and the Gateway in orbit around the Moon, are NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration. Artemis II will be the first crewed mission of Orion atop the SLS rocket.

Image Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/heat-shield-milestone-complete-for-first-orion-mission-with-crew

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #29 on: 07/09/2020 01:25 pm »
« Last Edit: 07/09/2020 01:26 pm by jacqmans »
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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #30 on: 07/09/2020 01:28 pm »
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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #31 on: 07/09/2020 01:36 pm »
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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #32 on: 09/08/2020 07:15 pm »
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The last of three motors required to assemble the Launch Abort System for NASA’s Artemis II mission, the attitude control motor (ACM), arrives at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 28. The attitude control motor (ACM) was delivered by truck from Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility in Maryland, to the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at Kennedy. During launch of Orion atop the agency’s Space Launch System rocket, the LAS motors work together to separate the spacecraft from the rocket in the unlikely event of an emergency during launch. The LAS includes three motors – the launch abort motor, the jettison motor, and the attitude control motor—that once activated, will steer the spacecraft carrying the astronauts to safety. The ACM operates to keep Orion’s crew module on a controlled flight path in the event it needs to jettison and steer away from the rocket. Artemis II is the first crewed flight in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon that will lay the foundation for exploration of Mars and beyond. Artemis II will confirm all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space with astronauts aboard. As part of the Artemis program, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the Moon in 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #33 on: 02/17/2021 08:01 am »
Workers inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, continue assembly of Orion’s Artemis II crew module on Feb. 5, 2021. The capsule will house astronauts during its mission around the Moon. Recently, teams removed the spacecraft from its clean room environment, where they have been performing the buildup of the Environmental Control and Propulsion System (ECPS) assemblies prior to their installation into the crew module. It will return to the clean room to complete ECPS final welds and assemblies. Artemis II will confirm all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space with astronauts aboard. As part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the Moon.
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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #34 on: 02/17/2021 08:02 am »
Workers inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, continue assembly of Orion’s Artemis II crew module on Feb. 5, 2021. The capsule will house astronauts during its mission around the Moon. Recently, teams removed the spacecraft from its clean room environment, where they have been performing the buildup of the Environmental Control and Propulsion System (ECPS) assemblies prior to their installation into the crew module. It will return to the clean room to complete ECPS final welds and assemblies. Artemis II will confirm all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space with astronauts aboard. As part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the Moon.
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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #35 on: 02/17/2021 08:06 am »
Workers inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, continue assembly of Orion’s Artemis II crew module on Feb. 5, 2021. The capsule will house astronauts during its mission around the Moon. Recently, teams removed the spacecraft from its clean room environment, where they have been performing the buildup of the Environmental Control and Propulsion System (ECPS) assemblies prior to their installation into the crew module. It will return to the clean room to complete ECPS final welds and assemblies. Artemis II will confirm all of the Orion spacecraft’s systems operate as designed in the actual environment of deep space with astronauts aboard. As part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the first woman and next man to the Moon.
Jacques :-)

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #37 on: 03/26/2021 04:11 pm »
Engine of Atlantis

Hmm... OMS pods stayed with the same orbiters throughout their lifetimes?  I thought they were sort of mix-and-match, rather like the SSMEs.

Specifically, I always was under the impression that the orbiter was brought into the processing facility post-flight, the SSMEs and OMS pods were removed and went into their own processing/refurbishment flow, and then the SSMEs and OMS pods re-installed were those most ready to support the next flight of that particular orbiter.  The engines (including the OMS engines and their pods) that were re-installed was usually pre-defined prior to the start of the processing flow.

Am I right, or am I remembering incorrectly?
-Doug  (With my shield, not yet upon it)

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #38 on: 03/26/2021 05:51 pm »
You are right in general. But the circumstances make it so, that this specific engine flew only six times, and only on Atlantis.

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Re: EM-2/Artemis 2 Orion Construction and Processing Updates
« Reply #39 on: 08/11/2021 08:49 am »
The crew module for NASA’s Artemis II mission is shown inside Kennedy Space Center’s Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on July 15, 2021. Artemis will lay the foundation for a sustained long-term presence on the lunar surface. NASA will use the Moon to validate deep space systems and operations before embarking on a human voyage to Mars.
« Last Edit: 06/11/2022 02:49 am by zubenelgenubi »
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