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Orion Goddard Nasa Social 2014

Satellite Testing and Integration Facility

Overview of vibration, acoustics, the thermal vacuum chamber & high-capacity centrifuge, which can generate 30 G on up to a 2.5 tons load.

 

Presenter: Janet Thomas, environmental testing engineer

 

More info here: www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/testing_c...

 

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The 6-foot-wide horns in this 42-foot-tall chamber can produce noise at levels as high as 150 dB.

 

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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.

 

Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.

 

www.nasa.gov/social-orion-multicenter/#.VJ0hmAHMIA

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