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Irvin Aerospace Selected To Design Parachutes For Orion Spacecraft
Santa Ana CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2006 Irvin Aerospace, the world's first parachute engineering, design and manufacturing company founded in 1919, was selected by Jacobs Sverdrup for NASA to develop parachutes for NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). Following the space shuttles retirement in 2010, NASA plans to replace the aging shuttle fleet with a number of reusable Orion spacecraft. Orion is expected to carry crew members to the International Space Station, the Moon and beyond. Working with an integrated product team (IPT) that includes NASA, Jacobs Sverdrup, and engineers from Irvin Aerospace, the design team will develop a CEV Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) which is scheduled to begin testing in approximately 6 months. "We are extremely pleased with the opportunity to work with Jacobs and NASA," said Dave Berry, President of Irvin Aerospace. "Our company is very proud to be selected and we will focus our energies on working together in support of our Nation's Space Program." Irvin is also working with NASA's Langley Research Center to explore the suitability of a Landing Airbag System for the final landing attenuation for the Orion spacecraft. Irvin was recently awarded a development contract from Rocketplane Kistler under NASA's recent Commercial Orbital Transpiration Services (COTS) program to complete the development of the RpK K-1 vehicle to provide commercial cargo deliver and eventually crew delivery services to the International Space Station. The Orion contract award will add 10-15 engineering positions at Irvin's Santa Ana, California headquarters as well as a number of high skilled manufacturing positions. In addition, the RpK COTS award is expected to provide a similar number of engineering and manufacturing jobs. Related Links Irvin Aerospace Rocket Science News at Space-Travel.Com
Strap-On Engine Caused GSLV Failure
Delhi, India (PTI) Nov 06, 2006The S4 strap-on engine whose malfunction caused the failure of GSLV rocket on July 10, 2006 off Sriharikota may have "totally disintegrated." Secretary Earth Sciences PS Goel said there was a possibility of the engine having been completely destroyed as they had found melted, twisted and broken metallic parts of S4's lower stage within one kilometer radius of S4 nose cone which had been recovered from the sea bed in Bay of Bengal in October along with middle parts of the stage and base plate electronics. |
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