**The most comprehensive collection of Shuttle, Ares, Orion and ISS related presentations and mission documentation, plus expansive daily processing documentation and updates are <\/em>available to download on L2<\/em><\/font> **<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n **ARES I LIVE UPDATE PAGES**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n **ORION\/Exploration Vehicles LIVE UPDATE PAGES**<\/em><\/p>\n **ARES V \/ Mars LIVE UPDATE PAGES**<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n **EXPLORATION ALTERNATIVES (DIRECT, EELV) PAGES**<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n NASA educational resources (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n **ALL NASASpaceflight.com CxP Articles**<\/font><\/p>\n Clarifying The Schedule:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n Making several references to the five year gap, Hanley \u2013 along with fellow CxP manager Doug Cooke \u2013 focused mainly on the IOC (Initial Operational Capability) date for Orion 2, which is classed as the first manned test flight. <\/p>\n The 12 month slip is specific to the buffer zone between the IOC date and the commitment date. Previously, September 2013 was the IOC date, with 18 months of flexibility in the development schedule towards the commitment date of March, 2015. <\/p>\n \u2018Since the program\u2019s inception, NASA has been working an aggressive plan to achieve flight capability before our March 2015 target,\u2019 pre-empted Rick Gilbrech, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, in a statement surrounding the address to the media.<\/p>\n \u2018We are still confident the Constellation Program will make its first flight to the International Space Station on or before that date. Our new path forward better aligns our project schedules with our existing funds to ensure we can address the unplanned challenges that always arise when developing a complex flight system.\u2019 <\/p>\n However, while Orion 2 will be the debut flight of Orion with a crew onboard, the mission will not fulfil the role of re-establishing US capability for crew rotation on the ISS, which currently being achieved by shuttle and the Russian Soyuz vehicle.<\/p>\n With shuttle currently retiring in 2010, the US will rely solely on Soyuz for transporting astronauts to and from the ISS. This will continue until Orion reaches FOC (Full Operational Capability) on what is currently scheduled as Orion 4. <\/p>\n Constellation schedules have consistently shown the FOC date to be 12 months after the IOC date \u2013 thus, a commitment target of March 2015 for Orion 2 results in Orion 4 realistically tracking March, 2016, a real time gap of six years, a timeframe in which the US will only have Soyuz as a confirmed vehicle to rotate US astronauts on the ISS.<\/p>\n An additional factor may come via COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services), if a manned solution can be gained via \u2013 for example \u2013 SpaceX\u2019s Dragon capsule. Such an option remains limited by SpaceX\u2019s ability to work through an ambitious development program that has already been hit by failures.<\/p>\n L2 Members: Refer to TAG keywords \u2018Constellation\u2019 \u2018Orion\u2019 \u2018Ares I\u2019 \u2018COTS\u2019 and \u2018Schedules\u2019 for expansive presentations, etc.<\/em> <\/p>\n Thrust Oscillation Claims:<\/u><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Mr Hanley and Mr Cooke also gave a positive overview of the development of the vehicle that will launch Orion in orbit, Ares I, even though their own CxP documentation shows wide-ranging engineering concerns.<\/p>\n Threats to the program milestones remain at the top end of risk matrix\u2019s that are produced to overview the criticality of issues relating to the vehicle. <\/p>\n This is heavily exemplified with the Thrust Oscillation issue, which remains an ongoing mitigation process, given engineers still await real data on the effects the solid motor can have on the astronauts. <\/p>\n Such data will be forthcoming via a number of shuttle flights, Ares I-X and Ares I-Y, meaning a final solution to the issue is literally years away. <\/p>\n Down selection of concepts has, however, been taking place \u2013 as previously reported by this site \u2013 with Hanley appearing to confirm that the elaborate Active Pulse Thrusters (ATP) on the aft skirt of the vehicle is losing favor as a viable option. <\/p>\n \u2018The team has identified a concept, which is a system that has an active element to it to sense what is going on with the vehicle, actually manipulate those mass absorbers to tune up with the offending oscillations,\u2019 noted Hanley, who also referenced a potential concept that is installed to the outside of the vehicle.<\/p>\n Interestingly, down select mitigation presentations on such systems noted that the reduction of Thrust Oscillation was only within the parameters of ensuring the crew did not suffer health risks, but not to the acceptable point for the crew\u2019s operational requirements. <\/p>\n It is still possible two mitigation techniques may be required to work in tandem to bring down the Thrust Oscillation effects to within acceptable levels \u2013 with actual flight data the key part of understanding the issue properly. <\/p>\n Sources working on the mitigation concepts insist no final decision has been taken at this time, as the current data on Thrust Oscillation is only available via computational models, as opposed to real flight data.<\/p>\n L2 Members: Refer to TAG keyword \u2018TO\u2019 for updates and expansive presentations.<\/em><\/p>\n Orion WEST in NBL Hi Res and Notes. 8th Floor News Updates. Ares V Alternative Engine Arrangement Presentation. Hi Res CxP Logos. Full (and very expansive) set of presentations on Ares\/Orion mass and status report. Ares I \u2018Parasorber\u2019 TO migitation hardware presentation and animation. Ares I TO Risk Slides. Ares I Risk Status. <\/p>\n Hi Res Images of Ares I FS Parachute Test Vehicle (JDTV). 20mb of new Lunar Images of Chariot, Athlete and Lunar Crane. Ares I KSC Processing Master Book \u2013 184 pages.<\/em> Changes for Ares I-X (Images). PRCB Transition Presentation (Shuttle to Ares). Ares V (5.5\/6xRS-68) Presentation (and more). Orion Parachute Vehicle Images. Latest Risk Matrix for Ares. SI Unit Directive Document. CxP PMR08 Manifest. PDR and associated notes from CPCB meeting. Orion Parachute Test Vehicle (PTV) Photographs. <\/em><\/p>\n 110mb worth of Ares I-X Weekly Test Presentations (Ares I-X, J2-X etc. up to end of April) The Orion LIDS (Low Impact Docking System) Section (Images, Videos, Engineering Notes). Hi Res Images of Ares I in the VAB. Ares I-X Integrated Milestone Charts. Ares I Thrust Oscillation Focus Team Status Presentations (over 50mb \u2013 includes DTO on Shuttle missions), Ares I-X Global Buckling Status Presentation, Ares I \u2013 Launch Pad Stabilization and Damping Presentation, Ares I: Purge\/Vent\/Drain and Vehicle Access Presentation. <\/em><\/p>\n Ares Tilt Up Umbilical Arm (TUUA) Test \u2013 Video, Ares\/Orion Comm and Tracking Presentation, Ares I Nozzle Extension Update Presentation, Ares\/Orion Integrated Stack TIM Summary (Major Issues) Presentation, Orion Land vs Water Landing Update + Crew Survival (post 36 hrs) Presentations.<\/p>\n Orion Rendezvous with the ISS CGI Video, plus AERCam Inspections. Ares I Thurst Oscillation Update Section. Images of completed PA-1 boilerplate Command Module at LaRC. CxP Planning for Architecture Closure \u2013 Feb 19. Ares V Overview Presentations. Other Major CxP Updates for Feb (List restricted to L2). Lunar Habitat Assembly. PRCB Presentations on hardware and infrastruction transition (from Palmdale to MLP Park) \u2018Follow live\u2019 Lightning Towers Construction images. Latest Mobile Launcher details. Orion\/Ares I\/Delta IV Heavy NEO Feasibility Study (Video). Constellation EVA Study Presentation. Superb Gene Kranz address to CxP workforce (Apollo to Orion feature) video. MOD \u2018LEO to Mars\u2019 presentations.<\/em><\/p>\n Superb Ares I Launch Ascent, Pad Abort Test CGI Videos (three). Integrated Stack (IS) Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) notes \u2013 Nov 6 to Nov 15. The full \u20188th Floor News\u2019 \u2013 Constellation Update (performance issues) \u2013 Nov 5. Ares I Mobile Launcher PMR.<\/p>\n Presentation of Ares\/Orion impacts relating to Shuttle manifest acceleration. Ares I Interstage diagrams. Ares V Super Crawler. Ares I Launch Pad images (ML etc.) Hi Res images of Ares I-X Upper Stage. Orion 606-7 Data Updates. 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This has now changed to six months of buffer zone, with the IOC date moving 12 months to the right, to September 2014 \u2013 confirming the content of Hanley\u2019s memo to the workforce two months ago.<\/p>\n
Tuned Mass Absorbers, or Dampers, appear to be leading the forward plan. However, with Hanley adding the preference is for the active system, mass penalties to the vehicle will be substantial. <\/p>\n
Selection of L2 Resources For Ares I, V and Constellation: <\/em><\/p>\n
Altair Overview Presentation. Ares I Risks and Status. Ares I-X Booster Recovery Images and Video. Ares I-X Pad Images. Ares I-Y Mission Overview Video (50mb \u2013 Superb). Orion Lunar Transit CGI Video. (Several more videos, including first video of Orion splashdown). <\/p>\n
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Orion 607 Overview Presentation (Jan 08), Constellation Program Status\/Budget and new Manifest to Orion 20 Presentation (Jan, 08). Michoud Transition to Ares I\/V (Jan 17, 08). Several MLAS (Max Launch Abort System) Presentations. Over 60 Hi Res Images of Orion Mock-up at JSC (Hatch, Seats, Flight Deck) \u2013 December. <\/em><\/p>\n\u2018Proposed\u2019 Ares I SRBSF (Mini VAB) and graphic. LSAM (LDAC-1) Video and Images. Several Constellation All Hands Videos and Presentations. Ares I Pad Rollercoaster (Old and New presentation and slides \u2013 the very cool \u2018CGI ride on the Ares pad coaster\u2019 video. Ares I VAB \u2018In-Line\u2019 Stacking presentation slides.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ares I-X: Four Seg+Dummy \u2018Tuna Can\u2019 stage. Ascent Developmental Flight Test Presentation. CLV Pad 39B Handover Info and Latest. New images of CLV on top of new MLP and LUT. Lockheed Martin CEV\/Orion Updates. ATK figures on the 5-Seg Booster weight for CLV. <\/p>\n