NASA Launches First Orion Deep-Space Capsule in Historic Test Flight

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NASA Launches First Orion Deep-Space Capsule in Historic Test Flight

posted on Dec 06, 2014 02:51PM

http://www.space.com/27924-nasa-orion-spacecraft-historic-launch.html

,,NASA officials will also be using the approximately 1,200 sensors aboard Orion to monitor the way the capsule's computers and other technology behave in the harsh space environment. Orion will fly through belts of radiation twice during the flight (once on the way out, and again on the way back to Earth), allowing scientists to see how the spacecraft's computers behave in a high-radiation environment."