Nasa’s Orion crew exploration vehicle has successfully completed the phase 1 safety review of the agency’s human rating requirements for space exploration in low Earth orbit and beyond.
Approval after the review has been received by the Lockheed-Nasa team developing the project from Nasa’s Constellation Safety & Engineering Review Panel (CSERP).
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System safety aims to deal with potentially catastrophic failures that could result in a loss of crew or loss of mission during launch, ascent to orbit, approach and docking to the International Space Station, re-entry, landing and recovery operations.
The design and operations are thoroughly reviewed for possible causes of such catastrophic failures and appropriate mitigations are designed as part of Nasa’s human-rating programme.
The phase paves the way for the critical design review (CDR) and phase 2 safety review.
Orion comprises a crew module for crew and cargo transport, a service module for propulsion, electrical power and fluids storage, a spacecraft adapter for securing it to the launch vehicle, and a launch abort system for crew safety.
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