As NASA’s Orian spacecraft is carrying a crew around the moon on the Artemis II mission, a team of expert engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will monitor the spacecraft with their visit at the Mission Control Center. They will be working from a new location in the Mission Control Complex built to host the Orion Mission Assessment Room (MER). Through the success of Orion and Artemis missions, NASA will return humanity on the moon and prepare an American on the ground on the surface of Mars.
Inside the mission evaluation chamber, dozens of engineers will monitor spacecraft and collect data, while the flight control team located in the White Flight Control Room of Mission Control is working together and sending command to Orion during the flight. The flight control team will rely on the engineering expertise of the evaluation chamber to help with unexpected spacecraft behaviors that can arise during the mission and help analyze the Orion’s performance data.
The Mission Evolution Room Team is made up of NASA, Lockheed Martin, ESA (European Space Agency), and Airbus engineers, who bring tasks for deep, expert knowledge and mission of the spacecraft of the spacecraft. These tasks are represented in 24 console, usually in their respective discipline employees, often hosting additional support personnel during the dynamic stages employed by two engineers, missions or testing objectives.
Tray periman
Lead for Orion Mission and Integration Systems in NASA Johnson
Periman guided the Deputy Manager for Jane Madsen, Oian’s Avionics, Power and Software along with Artemis II Orion Mission Evolution Room.
Along with riding in the crew, the Orion will put more systems for testing, which would require more expertise to monitor the new system that was not flown before. To support these needs, and the successful, successful flights of Orion for the Moon, NASA officially revealed all the new features in the mission control to host the Orion Mission Evaluation Room on August 15.
During Artemis II, the evaluation room will work in three daily innings, which will begin about 48 hours before the liftoff. The room is placed around the clock during a mission of approximately 10 days, until the spacecraft is safely secured inside the US Navy ship that will fix it after the splashadown.
Another major function of the evaluation chamber is producing and analyzing large amounts of data during flight, which will help inform the team’s team on the performance of the spacecraft.
“Data collection is extremely important,” said Periman. “We will analyze and evaluate all the data we have collected, and compare what we were expecting from the spacecraft. While there will be a lot of data comparison during the mission, we will do intensive analysis even after the mission is over what we have learned.”
If unplanned conditions arise during the mission, the mission assessment chamber has additional layers of ability to support any specific requirement that presents itself. This includes various NASA centers, lockheed Martin’s Integrated Test Lab, ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Center, and more of various engineering supports.
Jane madasen
Orion’s Deputy Manager for Avionics, Power and Software
Madasen said, “We will see our spacecraft taking our crew to the moon on these screen and still continuously learning all the abilities.”
Artemis II Test flight flight NASA astronaut Reed Vicman, Victor Glover, and Christina coach, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will send Jeremy Hansen around the moon and return home safely. As part of NASA’s Artemis expedition, this will set a platform to help Americans return to the lunar surface for NASA and help the agency and its commercial and international partners prepare for Mars for future human missions.
