May 4, 2024 at 11:15 hrs.
A new general report of the POT forced delay the release dates of the Artemis II test flight until September 2025 Because of security.
The space mission is part of the Artemis Program, and will be the first in navigate deep space with passengers on board from the Orion spacecraft on a trip of at least 10 days, which seeks to pave the way towards new forms of space exploration and the arrival for the first time in history of women on the Moon with the landing of the ship Artemis III In the near future.
The crew, made up of three NASA experts: Commander Reid Wisemanthe pilot Victor Gloverand the mission specialist Christina Kocha group to which the mission specialist will also join Jeremy Hansenof the Canadian Space Agency, must test the capabilities of the spacecraft’s life support systems as they explore deep spaceto know if it is truly possible to do it with people inside.
The space agency’s letter revealed at least 100 ship points Orion in which the heat shields protectors They wore differently than expected during its re-entry to the planet during the 2022 mission, to which are added at least two cases of anomalies in the distribution of energy, and several melted bolts.
“While NASA officials consider Artemis I an overall success, providing important data and learning several lessons, The mission also revealed important technical problems that the agency must address before Artemis II. The most important thing for the Agency in the future will be to identify and mitigate the cause of the melting and erosion problems of the Orion heat shield and the separation bolts,” the entity stated.
From the POT They pointed out that all these anomalies must be corrected to ensure crew safety before launchso the date of the Artemis II mission could be modified in case repairs and testing take longer than anticipated.
The entity seeks to prevent a repeat of the incident that occurred with the Space shuttle Columbia in 2003when a piece of foam from the external tank hit the ship’s left wing thermal protection system during launch, causing the ship to caught fire and disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, causing the death of its seven crew members.
