Posted on 08/19/2013 4:04:49 AM PDT by Robinson Masih
Will a Warship, become a transport dock for a capsule? Yes, Department of Defense and NASA have collaborated and carried out a test trial for recovery of a space capsule. As the Space administration gets ready for another deep space exploration escapade, The NASA and Navy may be ready for the astronauts involved in the Orion Program.
NASA , Navy collaboration
Department of Defense and NASA carried out a joint practice to recover a space capsule, for the first time in about 40 years. Termed as the Orion Program, the operation was specifically developed to gear up NASA and the Navy to recover astronauts boarded aboard the space craft called Orion.
NASA confirms that Orion is another foray into the deep space and will be specially equipped to carry out its exploratory research into the unknown. Will the astronauts venture out into the deep recesses of the unknown space? Will the unexplored recesses be reachable now? Maybe the Orion will now unfold the mysteries of space and reach out to an asteroid or mars, say the experts!
The practice session, carried out on Elizabeth River, involved the Navy personnel with inflatable boats. The session at the Naval Station Norfolk, drew in the Navy personnel who reeled in a test capsule and then towed it to warship that acted as a transport dock.
The Orion Program
Talking about the Orion Program, Scott Wilson, a NASA official states, “It’s a pretty historic start to the program.” The first unmanned explorative mission is said to be in September 2014 and maybe soon astronauts will be going into space aboard the Orion .
This is a test trial before the naval teams and NASA venture into the Pacific Ocean areas near San Diego. In the recovery process the capsule has to be drained of water and then properly secured according to NASA. The total process is spaced across 2 hours and the draining process itself takes about 40 minutes.
At the re-entry the suit cooling functions of the space craft are turned off, and the ideal temperature to be maintained by the astronaut bodies is about 100.5 degrees. This recovery period of two hours may be ideal to avert overheating in the crew members.
Talking about the recovery process, Wilson stated “We have what we refer to as a ‘crawl, walk, run strategy.” At the time of the recovery process the waters were kept calm according to the project design to reduce the risks, though the experts state that choppy waters and rough seas may be a part of the actual recovery time.
Ever since the Apollo Mission programs carried out in 1975, this is the first time the Defense Department has been roped in with NASA.
But what does any of this have to do with better moslem relations?
But what does any of this have to do with better moslem relations?
We need carrier launch capability so we can launch from the equator but stability would be a real problem.
how many SECRET...shuttle missions were there?.... there was a bunch and those shuttle launches were covered in the media but the mission parameters were not discussed accept to say that it was a military mission.
there is nothing new here. nor is it 40 years since the military got involved.
For stability, you want not a carrier, but a "floating" oil drilling platform. I think one of those was actually built and tested years ago. Stabilization technology has improved greatly since then....driven by the need to access "deep-water" oil deposits. I think the floating-platform prototype was either done by a non-USA space agency, or some or other private concern/consortium.
Mega submarines with mega Trident 2 missiles with human occupied Orion capsules attached.
better yet...scratch all these chemical rockets and replace it with Freeman Dyson's, nuclear bomb powered Project Orion
Proud Papa bragging alert!
One of our daughters is a systems engineer on the Orion project.
On a related family note, I was on the USS R.A Owens, DD-827, back in 1966 when it was the backup recovery ship for one of the Apollo missions, probably the AS-203 unmanned test. We had a mockup capsule in a special cradle on the fantail. We set the capsule over the side, steamed off over the horizon then came back, located & recovered the capsule.
The Orion looks very much like a larger Apollo capsule.
So you want to build a carrier that can stabaaly cary, load and launch a 70 metric ton load in to low earth orbit?!
Let’s see, that puts this carrier in the 10’s of MILLION’s of tons category.
Not happening.
Checkout Sea Launch. They are the only ones to date to go this rout and they’ve been backrupt once and are heading that way again. Boeing bailed long ago on that venture.
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Disregard... somehow got posted in wrong posting
I thought Orion was cancelled due to budget cuts.
Is this the 7 passenger Mars ship?
I thought Orion was cancelled due to budget cuts.
Is this the 7 passenger Mars ship?
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