Ever skip stones across a pond? Imagine doing it with a spacecraft.
When the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft returns to Earth at the end of the Artemis I mission, it will attempt a never-been-done guidance and control maneuver called a skip-entry. This maneuver allows for a precise landing location for safer crew recovery efforts.
Lockheed Martin and NASA engineers collaborate to run thousands of Orion entry simulations. Our ground computational capability and the Integrated Test Labs have advanced the integration between Orion’s hardware and software to make this game-changing reentry possible.
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