Tag: Plum Brook
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Artemis 1 Orion halfway through Plum Brook thermal vacuum test
The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission is about halfway through two months of around the clock thermal vacuum testing at Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. NASA and prime contractor Lockheed Martin are collecting data on the spacecraft’s behavior and performance while it operates in simulated deep space…
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NASA Plum Brook Station gets ready for EM-1 Orion testing
NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, is finishing preparations for pre-flight testing of the Orion spacecraft assigned to Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). The Space Environments Complex of the Glenn Research Center test facility will be used to put the in-space configuration of Orion through thermal vacuum and electromagnetic testing that should take a few months.…