An experimental spacecraft reusable Orion, previously successfully reached Earth orbit, was able to drive in the Pacific Ocean. NASA experts say it sets in this series will be used for missions to Mars and the flight to colonize the moon.
«Testing a new type of ship Orion was a complete success,” – said the designers of NASA.Obschee Time Spent unit to Earth orbit is about 4.5 hours. During this period he managed to fly around the planet twice in different orbits – low and high. Complete a mission ship began the process of ditching. For braking parachutes were used 11. Orion went to pick up a division of the US Navy and scientists from NASA.
First of all, experts plan to analyze the performance of more than 1000 sensors located on the ship. The special importance of this test is related to the US space agency plans to send in 2021 manned mission to Mars is on Orion, using heavy booster SLS.
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