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Successful Orion Launch Abort Motor Test
NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Alliant Techsystems successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle Launch Abort System at ATK's Launch Systems facility in Promontory, Utah. This major milestone brings the program one step closer to completion of the Orion spacecraft that will replace the shuttle and provides a tremendous improvement in spaceflight safety for the astronauts.
This inaugural test of Orion's full-scale abort motor marks the first time such a test has been conducted since the Apollo Program tested its launch escape system in the 1960s. This demonstration was the culmination of a series of motor and component tests conducted earlier this year in preparation for the Pad Abort-1 Flight Test, which will test the abort system's capabilities using a full-scale crew module mockup.
Orion's abort motor has the same mission as Apollo's -- to safely lift the Orion crew module away from the launch vehicle, pulling the crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during initial ascent phase.
The abort motor, which stands more than 17 feet tall and spans three feet in diameter, has a manifold with four exhaust nozzles. It was fixed into a vertical test stand with its nozzles pointing skyward. Upon ignition, the abort motor fired for five seconds with the exhaust plume flames reaching up to 100 feet in height. The high-impulse motor was specifically developed so the majority of its propellant would be expended in the first three seconds, delivering the half million pounds of thrust needed to pull the crew module safely away from its launch vehicle.Successful Orion Launch Abort Motor Test
NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Alliant Techsystems successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle Launch Abort System at ATK's Launch Systems facility in Promontory, Utah. This major milestone brings the program one step closer to completion of the Orion spacecraft that will replace the shuttle and provides a tremendous improvement in spaceflight safety for the astronauts.
This inaugural test of Orion's full-scale abort motor marks the first time such a test has been conducted since the Apollo Program tested its launch escape system in the 1960s. This demonstration was the culmination of a series of motor and component tests conducted earlier this year in preparation for the Pad Abort-1 Flight Test, which will test the abort system's capabilities using a full-scale crew module mockup.
Orion's abort motor has the same mission as Apollo's -- to safely lift the Orion crew module away from the launch vehicle, pulling the crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during initial ascent phase.
The abort motor, which stands more than 17 feet tall and spans three feet in diameter, has a manifold with four exhaust nozzles. It was fixed into a vertical test stand with its nozzles pointing skyward. Upon ignition, the abort motor fired for five seconds with the exhaust plume flames reaching up to 100 feet in height. The high-impulse motor was specifically developed so the majority of its propellant would be expended in the first three seconds, delivering the half million pounds of thrust needed to pull the crew module safely away from its launch vehicle.
NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Alliant Techsystems successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle Launch Abort System at ATK's Launch Systems facility in Promontory, Utah. This major milestone brings the program one step closer to completion of the Orion spacecraft that will replace the shuttle and provides a tremendous improvement in spaceflight safety for the astronauts.
This inaugural test of Orion's full-scale abort motor marks the first time such a test has been conducted since the Apollo Program tested its launch escape system in the 1960s. This demonstration was the culmination of a series of motor and component tests conducted earlier this year in preparation for the Pad Abort-1 Flight Test, which will test the abort system's capabilities using a full-scale crew module mockup.
Orion's abort motor has the same mission as Apollo's -- to safely lift the Orion crew module away from the launch vehicle, pulling the crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during initial ascent phase.
The abort motor, which stands more than 17 feet tall and spans three feet in diameter, has a manifold with four exhaust nozzles. It was fixed into a vertical test stand with its nozzles pointing skyward. Upon ignition, the abort motor fired for five seconds with the exhaust plume flames reaching up to 100 feet in height. The high-impulse motor was specifically developed so the majority of its propellant would be expended in the first three seconds, delivering the half million pounds of thrust needed to pull the crew module safely away from its launch vehicle.Successful Orion Launch Abort Motor Test
NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Alliant Techsystems successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle Launch Abort System at ATK's Launch Systems facility in Promontory, Utah. This major milestone brings the program one step closer to completion of the Orion spacecraft that will replace the shuttle and provides a tremendous improvement in spaceflight safety for the astronauts.
This inaugural test of Orion's full-scale abort motor marks the first time such a test has been conducted since the Apollo Program tested its launch escape system in the 1960s. This demonstration was the culmination of a series of motor and component tests conducted earlier this year in preparation for the Pad Abort-1 Flight Test, which will test the abort system's capabilities using a full-scale crew module mockup.
Orion's abort motor has the same mission as Apollo's -- to safely lift the Orion crew module away from the launch vehicle, pulling the crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during initial ascent phase.
The abort motor, which stands more than 17 feet tall and spans three feet in diameter, has a manifold with four exhaust nozzles. It was fixed into a vertical test stand with its nozzles pointing skyward. Upon ignition, the abort motor fired for five seconds with the exhaust plume flames reaching up to 100 feet in height. The high-impulse motor was specifically developed so the majority of its propellant would be expended in the first three seconds, delivering the half million pounds of thrust needed to pull the crew module safely away from its launch vehicle.