The design work on the Ares I Emergency Escape System (EES) Rollercoaster is starting to pick up the pace, as the huge project undergoes further refinements on the giant structure that will reside at Pad 39B.
Redesigned as a fixed structure that will rise several hundred feet into the Space Coast panorama, a Design Kick Off presentation has called for three vehicles that can carry nine passengers each, in the event of an emergency evacuation of the pad.
The Rollercoaster Emergency Escape System (EES) will now be a fixed, permanent structure at launch…
NASA has published its Request For Proposals (RFP) to potential contractors, ahead of the construction…
NASA Constellation have approved the Rollercoaster Escape System to be used as the Emergency Egress…
Looking like it would appear more at home at the nearby Disney attractions in Orlando,…
Years and billions of dollars in the making, the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket…
Evaluations into pad escape options for the crewed vehicles of the future are currently taking…
Crawler Transporter 2 (CT-2) has successfully relocated the giant Ares I Mobile Launcher (ML) to…
The massive Ares I Mobile Launcher (ML), which recently completed its construction phase, is set…
A plan has been created for the continued use of Ares via a series of…
Pad workers have begun to evaluate what is being described as substantial heat damage to…
The Ares I-X test vehicle is continuing to undergo the business end of processing inside…
Lockheed Martin’s design efforts on the Orion vehicle are being hindered by Ares I driven…
Ares I engineers have created a “Plan A” option – which combines three mitigation techniques…
The Ares V core stage team is currently evaluating a configuration change to the location…
A report from Ares I-X’s Chief Engineer has called for the strengthening of the vehicle’s…
Engineers tackling one of the biggest issues with Ares I, namely Thrust Oscillation, are understood…
The mammoth Ares V is continuing to grow – on paper at least – to…
Following a NASA Constellation budget review – which found the program has a short term…
NASA Constellation (CxP) has completed the two-week Integrated Stack (IS) Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM), which…
