NASA Is Being Weirdly Secretive About What’s Wrong With Orion’s Heat Shield
Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.
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NASA faces tough decisions on Orion capsule's heat shield for Artemis moon missions
NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.
For some reason, NASA is treating Orion’s heat shield problems as a secret
For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away ...
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NASA Has Identified the Cause of Orion's Heat Shield Problem—But It's Keeping It Under Wraps
According to Hawkins and Glaze, NASA expects to share more information about Orion's heat shield issue before the end of the ...
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NASA finds, but does not disclose, root cause of Orion heat shield erosion
NASA has determined why the Orion heat shield lost more material than expected on the Artemis 1 mission but won’t disclose details until after it completes more tests.
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NASA Finds Root Cause Of Orion Heat Shield Charring
Among the issues uncovered by the Nov. 16-Dec. 11 Artemis I flight test was unanticipated charring of the Orion capsule’s ...
NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret
In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...
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SLS preparations underway for Artemis II and future...
Artemis II is currently scheduled for launch in September 2025 with a crew of four astronauts, though the schedule is subject ...
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft has ‘critical issues’ with its heat shield, report finds
NASA is intending to use its new Orion capsule to send astronauts to the moon under its Artemis program, but a new report finds that issues with the capsule’s heat shield could be a risk to crew ...
It’s increasingly unlikely that humans will fly around the Moon next year
We’ve had reason to doubt the September 2025 launch date for this mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for awhile now.
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NASA announces 9 possible moon landing sites for Artemis 3 lunar mission
The nine shortlisted sites, which were released by NASA on Monday (Oct. 28), are geologically diverse, and each of them has ...
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Lockheed Martin Orion Drags NASA
A decade on, it's the biggest driver of cost growth at NASA ... Orion costs over the past year were inflated by the delay of the next Artemis lunar mission to December. Battery and heat shield ...