Orion's Heat Shield Remains 'Biggest Open Issue' Ahead of NASA's Artemis 2 Mission
board Orion, NASA is running a series of tests on the spacecraft’s heat shield afte
r it unexpectedly took a little bit more damage than it was supposed to during the Artemis 1 mission.“We’re continuing to work on the heat shield, we’ll probably look for final disposition to that early next year,” Jim Free, associate administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said during a press conference. The space agency is running a series of tests on the heat shield to determine the root cause of its unanticipated level of wear and tear, according to Free.
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