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Forum: Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic: NASA's Artemis-1 mission (Orion/SLS)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 08-25-2016 07:19 PM Lockheed Martin release <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]Heat Shield Designed to Protect Orion Ships to Kennedy Space Center[/b]</font> The Orion team at Lockheed Martin's Space Systems Company facility outside of Denver recently completed and shipped the heat shield structure for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) spacecraft. At 16.5 feet in diameter, the heat shield for Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) was the largest composite heat shield ever built. And now, the team has completed the second. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/lockheed_em1_heatshield01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/lockheed_em1_heatshield01.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a></center> Among members of the heat shield manufacturing team, enthusiasm and excitement was high. "Working on the Orion heat shields is my favorite project," said James Beffel, a machinist in the Prototype Development Center where the heat shield and other spacecraft structures are machined. "It's not just the size and complexity, but the Orion mission as a whole. It's an emotional motivator to know that I helped build a critical part of these missions that are redefining human spaceflight." "I've only been with Lockheed Martin for about a year-and-a-half, and this is my first build of this magnitude in size and logistics," said Matt Rieck, a manufacturing engineer. "I came from the missile defense world, so this is the first thing I've worked on that I want to see fly." <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/lockheed_em1_heatshield02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/lockheed_em1_heatshield02.jpg" width="400" height="267" border="0"></a></center> Planning for a heat shield build of this complexity can begin up to a year in advance of production. Matt is already working on capturing lessons learned and beginning to coordinate the logistics for a static test article build, which will be the model for the Exploration Mission-2 heat shield. Over the next six months, the team at Kennedy Space Center will install Avcoat blocks, flight instrumentation and multi-layer insulation onto the heat shield. Once those steps are complete, the new, lighter-weight heat shield be installed onto Orion's crew module — one of the program's major assembly milestones ahead of flight. Orion's heat shield will protect the spacecraft during the entire EM-1 mission which includes about three weeks in deep space, over 4500°F re-entry temperatures and a safe splashdown in the ocean.</blockquote> <a name="021717a"></a>
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