U.s. Space Agency Plans Test Orion Spacecraft In 2014

  • 2011/11/09(水) 16:55:12

8 U.S. space agency issued a statement that the council early in 2014 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Air Force Base on the Orion spacecraft for flight testing.
The test will cost about $ 370 million. In the test, Orion spacecraft will enter about 8,000 kilometers above the Earth orbit. After two laps around the earth, it will speed of 3.2 million km of re-entry, ultimately landing in the sea by the space agency recycling.

U.S. space agency in 2017, initially planned to use self-developed high-thrust rocket test Orion spacecraft, but hopes to return to Earth early to determine how Orion and how to recycle, so decided to advance the use of commercial rocket launches.

"President Obama and Congress to develop an ambitious space exploration program, NASA will implement the plan quickly," deputy director of the U.S. space agency said in a statement, David Weaver, "the U.S. will start flight tests exploration of deep space mission data provided immeasurable support. "

Orion spacecraft to return to the moon in the United States had the only remaining part of the Constellation program. Obama decided to abandon the Constellation program after taking office, he hopes NASA can create high-thrust rocket, sent astronauts to an asteroid and eventually to Mars. Ugg Bailey Button Krinkle Boot Chestnut Outlet