Spacecraft Maintenance and Engineering

Technicians working on spacecraft components, engines, and processing activities at aerospace facilities, focusing on advancements in space technology.

T & R Discovery, Right OMS Pod Removal
T & R Discovery, Right OMS Pod Removal
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Technicians at Textron in Wimington, MA, perform X-ray testing on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion heat shield on Nov. 23, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians attach a crane to the Pump Flow Control Subsystem (PFCS) in the Space Station Processing Facility. The PFCS pumps and controls the liquid ammonia used to cool the various Orbital Replacement Units on the Integrated Equipment Assembly that make up the S6 Photo-Voltaic Power Module on the International Space Station (ISS). The fourth starboard truss segment, the S6 Truss measures 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. Its solar arrays are mounted on a blanket” that can be folded like an accordion for delivery to the ISS. Once in orbit, astronauts will deploy the blankets to their full size. When completed, the Station's electrical power system (EPS) will use eight photovoltaic solar arrays to convert sunlight to electricity. Delivery of the S6 Truss, the last power module truss segment, is targeted for mission STS-119.
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. On May 24, 2022, the core stage production team moved the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section for Artemis II to the core stage final integration area at NASAs Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. While there, the engine section team is completing installation of the main propulsion systems, finishing integration of the electrical and avionics systems, and preparing for functional testing of the various systems. During final integration, the team also will install remaining internal thermal protection systems and prepare to position the engine section from vertical to horizontal so that it can be joined with the rest of the core stage. The engine section is located at the bottom of the core stage and includes the rockets main propulsion systems that connect to the core stages four RS-25 engines that will help launch the Artemis II lunar mission. This fall, the engine section will be horizontally integrated with the previously-joined forward assembly and liquid hydroge
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility, Atlantis wheels are raised into their wheel bays in preparation for the expected impact of Hurricane Frances on Saturday. Other preparations at KSC include powering down the Space Shuttle orbiters, and closing their payload bay doors. Workers are also taking precautions against flooding by moving spacecraft hardware off the ground and sandbagging facilities. The Orbiter Processing Facility is constructed of concrete and steel and was designed to withstand winds of 105 mph. The Vehicle Assembly Building is constructed of concrete and steel and was designed to withstand winds of 125 mph. Other payload and flight hardware support facilities can endure winds of 110 mph. Launch pads and the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility can withstand 125-mph winds.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians remove engine No. 1, one of three space shuttle main engines from shuttle Endeavour using a specially designed engine installer, called a Hyster forklift.The work is part of Endeavour's transition and retirement processing. The spacecraft is being prepared for public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Endeavour flew 25 missions, spent 299 days in space, orbited Earth 4,671 times and traveled 122,883,151 miles over the course of its 19-year career. Endeavour's STS-134 and final mission was completed after landing on June 1, 2011.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Columbia Reconstruction Project Team members position debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia into a designated sector of the RLV Hangar. The debris is being shipped to KSC from the collection point at Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, La. As part of the ongoing investigation into the tragic accident that claimed Columbia and her crew of seven, workers will attempt to reconstruct the orbiter inside the hangar.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, media representatives taking the 21st Century Ground Systems tour get a close-up look at space shuttle Endeavour which is being stored in the Vehicle Assembly Building. Other stops on the tour include a crawler-transporter parked on the crawlerway, the new mobile launcher on Launch Pad 39B, and the Launch Control Center's Firing Room 1. These facilities and equipment will be used to prepare and launch NASA's new Orion spacecraft on the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.The tour was arranged as part of prelaunch media activities for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launch. Liftoff of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is planned during a launch window which extends from 10:02 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. EST on Nov. 26.
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The Orion Lockheed Martin team continues fabricating and assembling composite structures for the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion service module and launch abort system at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 5, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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Technicians at Textron in Wimington, MA, inspect the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion heat shield after a cold soak test on Nov. 22, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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The Lockheed Martin team completes the final weld of the cone section of the Artemis I Orion crew module pressure vessel at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Nov. 13, 2015. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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Madrid, 01/18/2016. Iberia area. Aircraft maintenance hangar 6. Photo: De San Bernardo. ARCHDC.
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Turntable road marking test system, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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The Orion Crew Module Adapter simulator arrives at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio on June 24, 2015. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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EM-2 Pressure Vessel in Bird Cage in the O&C
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England, Shropshire, Royal Airforce Cosford Museum, Volunteer Maintenence Personnel at Work
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker maneuvers space shuttle main engine No. 1 toward the aft opening in space shuttle Discovery for installation. Each engine is 14 feet long, weighs about 6,700 pounds, and is 7.5 feet in diameter at the end of the nozzle. Discovery is being processed for its next mission, STS-119, targeted for launch on Feb. 12, 2009. Discovery and its crew will deliver integrated truss structure 6 (S6) and solar arrays to the International Space Station.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Large pieces of Columbia debris are stacked along a wall in the RLV Hangar at KSC. The final shipment of debris arrived on this date - recovery efforts have been concluded in East Texas. Prior to this final shipment, the total number of items at KSC is 82,567, weighing 84,800 pounds or 38 percent of the total dry weight of Columbia. Of those items, 78,760 have been identified, with 753 placed on the left wing grid in the RLV Hangar.
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On Thursday 8th October 2020, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, visits two defence companies essential to the economic fabric of the Brittany region. The Minister of the Armed Forces then visits SABENA TECHNICS, a company specialising in aeronautical maintenance, aircraft conversion and cabin fittings. Half of this company's turnover is in the military sector. SABENA TECHNICS will benefit from the government's aeronautics support plan with, in particular, the anticipation of the order for a light surveillance and intelligence aircraft (ALSR). Saint-Lunaire on 2020-10-08.Le jeudi 8 octobre 2020, Florence Parly, ministre des Armees, visite deux entreprises de defense essentielles au tissu economique de la region Bretagne. La ministre des Armées visite ensuite la societe SABENA TECHNICS, spécialisee dans la maintenance aeronautique, la transformation davions et laménagement des cabines. La moitie du chiffre daffaire de cette entreprise concerne lactivite militaire. SABENA
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Day In The Life of Artemis Employees
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On Thursday 8th October 2020, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, visits two defence companies essential to the economic fabric of the Brittany region. The Minister of the Armed Forces then visits SABENA TECHNICS, a company specialising in aeronautical maintenance, aircraft conversion and cabin fittings. Half of this company's turnover is in the military sector. SABENA TECHNICS will benefit from the government's aeronautics support plan with, in particular, the anticipation of the order for a light surveillance and intelligence aircraft (ALSR). Saint-Lunaire on 2020-10-08.Le jeudi 8 octobre 2020, Florence Parly, ministre des Armees, visite deux entreprises de defense essentielles au tissu economique de la region Bretagne. La ministre des Armées visite ensuite la societe SABENA TECHNICS, spécialisee dans la maintenance aeronautique, la transformation davions et laménagement des cabines. La moitie du chiffre daffaire de cette entreprise concerne lactivite militaire. SABENA
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, has been jacked four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of the roller bearing assemblies. After inspections, new assemblies will be installed. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program office at Kennedy is overseeing the upgrades to CT-2 so that it can carry NASAs Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and new Orion spacecraft to the launch pad. For more than 45 years the crawler-transporters were used to transport the mobile launcher platform and the Apollo-Saturn V rockets and, later, space shuttles to Launch Pads 39A and B.
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Technicians at Textron in Wimington, MA, drill repair plugs on the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion heat shield on Nov. 24, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, or ARF, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers begin removing the protective cover from around the Ares I-X forward skirt. The forward skirt is the initial piece of first-stage hardware in preparation for the July 2009 test flight of the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system. Built entirely of armored steel, the 14,000-pound segment is seven feet tall and 12-1/4 feet wide. United Space Alliance, under a subcontract to ATK, will complete the integration and assembly of the forward skirt components in the ARF. It will then be moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 3 for stacking operations.
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Technicians at Textron in Wimington, MA, inspect the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion heat shield after a cold soak test on Nov. 22, 2013. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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Columbia Reconstruction Project Team members move a piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia into a specified sector of the RLV Hangar. The debris is being shipped to KSC from the collection point at Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, La. As part of the ongoing investigation into the tragic accident that claimed Columbia and her crew of seven, workers will attempt to reconstruct the orbiter inside the hangar.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond are seen underneath the mounting bracket for windmill blades undergoing tests during a joint event focused on climate change at the Wind Technology Testing Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 9, 2014.
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VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. - A technicians checks the installation of the payload fairing over the NuSTAR spacecraft as processing continues for the spacecraft and its Pegasus rocket for launch. NuSTAR stands for Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.
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Orion PV3 Closeout Weld
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Olaf Gross, Licence Engineer at easyJet, checks the engine of an Airbus A320 Neo in front of the opening of the new easyJet maintenance hangar at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, BER. The entire European easyJet fleet is maintained at the Schoenefeld site
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Japan,Honshu,Aichi,Nagoya,Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology,Automobile Pavilion,Exhibit depicting The Production Line of Toyota Model A1 Car
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REASSEMBLY OF DUCT LAB SWT MACH 4-5 NOZZLE WITH MACH 2.0 INJECTION
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Olaf Gross, Licence Engineer at easyJet, checks the engine of an Airbus A320 Neo in front of the opening of the new easyJet maintenance hangar at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, BER. The entire European easyJet fleet is maintained at the Schoenefeld site