The damage to the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission is already top of mind for NASA as it works to make the Artemis II mission safe for humans.
Images show heat shield char loss post-Artemis I mission, including cavities resulting from the loss of large chunks of the heat shield char during reentry. But a new agency report revealed the extent of the problem, including scores of cracks in Orion’s critical heat shield.outlined six issues that need NASA’s attention, with the heat shield damage found after the uncrewed Artemis I test mission in late 2022 at the top of the list.
Images show heat shield char loss post-Artemis I mission, including cavities resulting from the loss of large chunks of the heat shield char during reentry. The report specifically recommends NASA “ensure the root cause of Orion heat shield char liberation is well understood prior to launch of the Artemis II mission.”
The final three recommendations were to reexamine its procedures on landing recovery operations to increase chances it doesn’t lose jettisoned hardware including the parachutes, which for Artemis I sank into the ocean; to address bad telemetry data it saw on that flight; and the make sure any design changes fit into a timeline for the upcoming stacking operations of SLS and Orion at KSC’s Vehicle Assembly Building.
Already Artemis II was pushed from a planned November launch this year to no earlier than September 2025. Flying on the mission are NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
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