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NASA & SPACE NEWS
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Boeing groups within the Starliner meeting facility at Kennedy House Heart in Brevard County not too long ago put in and examined a brand new NASA Docking System cowl on the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft that may fly the Orbital Flight Take a look at mission in March.
The NASA Docking System, designed and constructed by Boeing, is a standardized mechanism that permits two spacecraft to attach safely with one another autonomously to create a brief tunnel so crews can transfer between the 2 automobiles.
The brand new cowl will present extra safety for the automated docking system throughout atmospheric re-entry, the place the capsule faces temperatures of about 3,000 levels Fahrenheit previous to touchdown at one in all 5 potential places within the western U.S.
The NDS cowl is situated underneath the crew module’s semispherical Ascent Cowl throughout launch and is simply seen throughout orbital operations after the Ascent Cowl jettisons.
It acts as a hatch on the highest of the car that may open for docking with the Worldwide Docking Adapters on the ISS and shut after undocking.
The NDS cowl was put in on the OFT-2 car in December.
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