Government/Military

Managing the recovery ship motions and the coupled well deck wave dynamics in a real-time ocean wave environment will be critical for the safe recovery of the Orion Crew Module (CM). In response to an NESC request from the KSC Office of the Chief Engineer, the Navy’s Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting (ESMF) system, developed by Applied Physical Sciences Corp., has been...

When NASA astronauts aboard the Orion crew capsule splash down in the Pacific Ocean after a trip beyond the Moon, their journey isn’t over just yet. As the capsule bobs up and down in the ocean waves, the astronauts will experience gravity for the first time in weeks after their 25,000-mile-per-hour journey in space while they await the recovery team. To ensure the astronauts have the...