John Matson
NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V rockets, key components of NASA's Constellation Program. Ares I will launch the Orion spacecraft that will take as...
John Matson
The abort motor will provide a half-million pounds of thrust to lift the crew module off the Ares I rocket, pulling the crew away safely in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during the first 300,000 feet of the rocket's climb to orbit. Thursday's firing was the first ...
以及可能更常听到的战神系列火箭、土星(农神)系列火箭、阿特拉斯运载火箭——其中Ares是希腊神话中的战争之神,Saturn是农业之神,Atlas是擎天巨神。阿特拉斯 根据NASA官方文件Origins of NASA Names,之所以会用阿特拉斯来命名运载火箭,是因为他们认为神话中的人物拥有最有力的肩膀,刚好寓意着运载火箭的性能。另外,...
NASA said April 3 it was leaning toward adding shock absorbers to Ares 1 to address the vexing vibration problem that designers of the astronaut-crew-launching rocket have been wrestling with for the past six months. Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., became...
In its inaugural year of operations, the Exploration Launch Projects Office has accomplished a phenomenal amount of work, maturing the design of the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle and Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle from the original proposals of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) to a lev...
预告的内容包括计划中的实验室之一的渲染图,该实验室将由该航天局的天体材料研究和探索科学部门(ARES)管理。 NASA的OSIRIS-REx太空任务正准备从小行星Bennu收集样本。该航天局已经为这次样品采集活动进行了数月的广泛研究和准备,大事件将在未来几天内进行。样品将被安全存放在航天器上,然后返回地球。 这次任务将使...
战神一号运载火箭 Ares I-X 上传者:LSNOW☆R 03:08 战神一号运载火箭 Ares I-X test 上传者:LSNOW☆R 02:00 CUTTING-EDGE CAPSULE 上传者:LSNOW☆R 07:37 NASA 撞月 上传者:LSNOW☆R 02:21 国际空间站3D 上传者:LSNOW☆R 05:01 国际空间站上拍摄地球 ...
in the Utah desert. There, ARES staff will be ready to safeguard the sample and prepare it for delivery to Houston. They’ll do the work inside a temporary clean room set up in a nearby aircraft hangar, just as ARES did after the Stardust comet sample capsule successfully l...