Thursday, September 10, 2020

Photo of the Day #2: One of Orion's Four Solar Array Wings Is Spread for Pre-flight Testing in Florida...

Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a technician inspects one of the four solar array wings that will power the Orion capsule during the Artemis 1 mission next year.
NASA / Isaac Watson

(News Release)

Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in preparation for installation on the Artemis I spacecraft, technicians have extended one of the Artemis I solar array wings for inspection on Sept. 10, 2020, to confirm that it unfurled properly and all of the mechanisms functioned as expected. The solar array is one of four panels that will generate 11 kilowatts of power and span about 63 feet. The array is a component of Orion’s service module, which is provided by the European Space Agency and built by Airbus Defence and Space to supply Orion’s power, propulsion, air and water.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024.

Source: NASA Kennedy - Flickr.com

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