Orion

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А тут батенька вы не правы  Уже не против!!!

А что поменялось?

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Кстати ИМБП выступает против "Быстрой схемы" стыковки Союзов так как к моменту стыковки:
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А тут батенька вы не правы  Уже не против!!!

А что поменялось?

Просто с одной стороны был недостаток информации. Когда объяснили - минусы поменялись на плюсы. Но это только начало пути...

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http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/awst/2012/01/09/AW_01_09_2012_p45-409165.xml&headline=Targets%20For%20Orion%20Visits%20Remain%20To%20Be%20Set&prev=10

Targets For Orion Visits Remain To Be Set[/size]
 Jan 13, 2012

  By Frank Morring, Jr.
Washington

Applications close at the end of the month for a new group of astronauts to fly the Orion capsule beyond the space station to the Moon, Mars and points in between.

So far more than 1,300 would-be space travelers have applied for the job, hoping that Orion will become the ultimate enabling technology for deep-space human exploration. The figure is comparable to the response NASA received from its calls for space shuttle crews.

Like everyone who has flown in space, the Orion applicants are risk-takers, willing to gamble their lives for a plunge into the unknown. And at this point, the unknown includes specific target destinations for the craft that NASA engineers call the "multi-purpose crew vehicle, or MPCV." While President Barack Obama has set a goal of sending humans to an asteroid by 2025, that is only one possible destination for Orion.

John Shannon, the last space shuttle program manager at NASA, has been on special assignment reviewing architectures for future human exploration for the past few months, and has started internal briefings on the options. Under the present state of play in U.S. space policy, Orion is almost certain to be the crew-transport element in any of them.

"If you step back and think of what we're doing, we're looking at a capability—both SLS [the heavy-lift Space Launch System] and MPCV/Orion—that can support multiple destinations," says William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and operations. "So instead of optimizing or building a vehicle that just supports one particular mission, we're trying to look at a vehicle that has enough flexibility without carrying a huge penalty for that flexibility, that can support multiple missions and multiple destinations."

Inside NASA, Gerstenmaier and other top managers are giving serious consideration to pulling modules from the International Space Station (ISS) when it is retired after 2020 and moving them to one of the Earth-Moon Lagrange points or to lunar orbit as an early destination for Orion. The idea has some international support as the ISS partnership begins to consider post-station human spaceflight (AW&ST Oct. 10, 2011, p. 46).

The first Orion flight on an SLS—tentatively set for 2017—probably will go around the Moon, and the first flight with a crew—in 2021 under current plans—may follow suit. It is also possible that the capsule will dock with the ISS, as a backup crew-transport vehicle to the private spacecraft under development.

Lockheed Martin, selected as the prime contractor on Orion in 2006, has been working on possible human missions with the capsule since 2007 and is looking for things to do with it on top of the original "back-to-the-Moon" plan.

"We basically were looking for other useful, productive ways to use Orion to explore that wouldn't cost a lot," says Josh Hopkins, Lockheed Martin's space exploration architect, who helped draft a "stepping-stones" concept growing out of that work.

Among productive human missions that could be enabled by Orion is a 35-day trip to the Moon's far side, where the capsule would go into a halo orbit around the L2 Lagrange point. Aside from giving crews longer-duration experience beyond low Earth orbit, a far-side flight could perform useful science by serving as a platform for deploying a low-frequency radio telescope on the surface, or for operating rovers to retrieve samples from the ancient Aitken Basin. The latter would guide development of similar techniques for exploration at Mars, while the former would take advantage of the radio silence on the other side of the Moon to peer into the "cosmic dark ages" after the Big Bang.

"If you could put a low-frequency radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, you'd be able to observe the structure of the hydrogen gas in the universe before the stars lit up, so you could understand how it was that this relatively uniform Big Bang ended up resulting in this non-uniform distribution of clumps of matter in galaxies and stars," Hopkins says. "So it's a pretty interesting question for cosmologists, that as far as they can tell can only be answered by building a radio telescope on the far side."

As crews accumulate time at L2, NASA could begin interspersing longer missions to asteroids. Lockheed Martin has identified a 195-day mission to the asteroid 2008 EA9, about 12 million km (7.5 million mi.) from Earth, and a 450-day mission to 2000 SG334, at a distance of 8 million km. NASA could also conduct experiments with artificial gravity for eventual flights deeper into space, spinning an Orion tethered to a counterweight to keep the crew healthy.

For those longer-duration missions, NASA would "definitely" need a habitat module that the crew could reach through the docking port at the top of Orion. Shorter missions, like those to the Moon, could be accommodated in the capsule's 21-day baseline by shrinking the crew size to three or even two from four.

While Mars is considered the ultimate goal, Hopkins says an intermediate mission to Deimos could be another important step along the way.

Measuring only 15 X 12.2 X 10.4 km, and more distant from the planet than the larger moon Phobos, Deimos is easier to reach from Earth and has a couple of spots at the equivalent of its north and south arctic circles that receive 10 months of continuous sunlight for solar power.

"[Deimos] has very little gravity; it has some, but I think something like 5 meters/sec. is the escape velocity, so you could land a spacecraft and take off again using the equivalent of RCS [reaction control system] thrusters," says Hopkins. "So we've debated, do we call it a lander, or is it just a habitat that happens to be able to land? You do have to have footpads and anchors, and you have to have thrusters in the right place, and you have to design it to interact with the dust on the surface, but it's not a lander in the sense that we normally think of."

In a notional 900-day mission, a crew would land at the southern site for four months, then go into orbit for 50 days, and then land at the northern site for a 10-month stay before returning to Earth. While at the tiny moon, they could operate rovers on the planet's surface, perhaps to collect samples. Hopkins and his colleague William Pratt calculate that a good time for the mission would be 2033-35, which coincides with a planetary alignment that offers the most protection from galactic cosmic rays.

"We don't look at these first missions as going to a Lagrange point to get your passport stamped," Hopkins says. "There are some really interesting fundamental science questions about the formation of the Solar System or the universe that you can accomplish."

Photo: Jefferson Morris[/size]

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Кстати ИМБП выступает против "Быстрой схемы" стыковки Союзов так как к моменту стыковки:
...

А тут батенька вы не правы  Уже не против!!!

А что поменялось?

Просто с одной стороны был недостаток информации. Когда объяснили - минусы поменялись на плюсы. Но это только начало пути...

Ок!

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Еще немного вправо: EFT-1 set to receive Spring, 2014 launch date after contract negotiations

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/01/eft-1-spring-2014-launch-date-contract-negotiations/

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Look for a spaceship headed your way!

NASA's test version of the Orion spacecraft is loaded onto the trailer to begin our cross-country journey! We leave White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico tomorrow morning and head toward the Science Museum located in the largest city in Oklahoma: Oklahoma City. We look forward to seeing there on January 24 and 25.

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html

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http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/gallery/abort_test/jsc2009e219018.html



http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/gallery/abort_test/jsc2009e218841.html

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http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/gallery/abort_test/jsc2009e219018.html

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/gallery/abort_test/jsc2009e218841.html

Да, как давно это было ... 24 Sept. 2009

[Александр Ч.]

Да, как давно это было ... 24 Sept. 2009

Тогда вот от 2011:05:16:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2157.html

[К.А.]

Кто знает, у этого изделия есть номер или индекс, и вообще сколько уже корпусов построено и с какими номерами?

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Кто знает, у этого изделия есть номер или индекс, и вообще сколько уже корпусов построено и с какими номерами?

Orion Ground Test Article (Orion GTA)
еще делают первый летный Orion OFT-1 (он же  EFT-1)

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Как в Орионе побороли невозможность читать с экрана из-за вибрации в 12Гц.

http://gizmodo.com/5880850/how-nasa-solved-a-100-million-problem-for-five-bucks

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Как в Орионе побороли невозможность читать с экрана из-за вибрации в 12Гц.

http://gizmodo.com/5880850/how-nasa-solved-a-100-million-problem-for-five-bucks

"By simply strobing the display in time with the vibration, they could kill this problem altogether."
"With the vibration and the strobing now perfectly in sync, the display became crystal clear."
Трясти изображение на экране синхронно с тряской головы астронавта :lol: Может просто экран к шлему привинтить?

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Трясти изображение на экране синхронно с тряской головы астронавта :lol: Может просто экран к шлему привинтить?

Я так понял, что экран не трясут, а подгоняют частоту регенерации изображения под частоту вибраций - эффект стробоскопа

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Трясти изображение на экране синхронно с тряской головы астронавта :lol: Может просто экран к шлему привинтить?

Я так понял, что экран не трясут, а подгоняют частоту регенерации изображения под частоту вибраций - эффект стробоскопа

Правильно понимаете. Но это первый, самый простой шаг.
Потом мы плавно переходим от 1 фазного стробоскопа к 2х фазному, когда изображение появляется не только в высшей точке тряски головы, но еще и в нижней. В этом случает нам нужно успеть отобразить еще одно изображение на экране, уже в другой позиции. Еще нужно не забывать про резонансные частоты колебаний головы и глазных яблок. Могут проявить себя гармоники. :roll: Представляю картинку персонального измерения этих частот у пилотов Ориона и занесения их в реестр параметров устройства отображения информации :lol:

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Представляю картинку персонального измерения этих частот у пилотов Ориона и занесения их в реестр параметров устройства отображения информации :lol:

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+ возрастные/временные изменения и калибровка перед каждым полетом.

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Потом мы плавно переходим от 1 фазного стробоскопа к 2х фазному, когда изображение появляется не только в высшей точке тряски головы, но еще и в нижней. В этом случает нам нужно успеть отобразить еще одно изображение на экране, уже в другой позиции.

Логическое завершение: система постоянно отслеживает положение зрачка в пространстве (от вибрации) и двигает изображение по экрану одновременно с ним - так что для трясущегося и матерящегося астронавта изображение выглядит стабильным
  Как раз к ста мильенам по цене и вернемся

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This Week @ NASA - February 10, 2012
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=132074451

В начале показывают Орион.

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Orion hoping for success with second generation parachute system
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/02/orion-hoping-for-success-second-generation-parachute-system/