/epochtimes.ru/ spacecraft NASA “Orion”, designed for interplanetary missions, successfully completed a test flight around the Earth and fell into the water in the Pacific Ocean on Friday night.
The spacecraft “Orion”, designed for interplanetary manned flights, safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after made its first test circled around the Earth. He launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a heavy launch vehicle Delta 4. Three hours later, he reached the peak height of 5800 km., Made a turn and went into the atmosphere began to decrease.
In order to slow the descent “Orion “, deployed in a total of 11 parachutes. In this case, the ship warmed to more than 2 million degrees Celsius. The device is lowered into the water in the normal mode and the specified coordinates.
After decoding the telemetry readings, NASA specialists definitive answer to the question of how well your waste equipment of the ship in the first place, the three-meter heat shield, parachutes and navigation equipment.
This is the first of two unmanned missions “Orion”. In the second, he must make circled the moon in 2018. Take on board the ship pilots should plan in seven years. (Epochtimes.ru)
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