Engineers at several NASA centers built the Orion test article that has many of the design features and the same mass as the capsule that will carry crew. This test scheduled for 2 July 2019 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is designed to focus on Orion’s launch abort capabilities, and all required data will be captured by the data recorders, so the crew module used for Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test will not deploy parachutes after the abort system […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: AA-2, Ascent Abort-2, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Abort System, Launch Complex 46, LC 46, Minotaur, Orion, Peacekeeper, SLS, Space Launch System