Orion lost more material from its heat shield during reentry than predicted.
atop the agency's Space Launch System rocket , the most powerful rocket ever launched.
That's not to say that every aspect of the mission went perfectly. During Tuesday's call, NASA program managers revealed that Orion's heat shield did not perform as expected, losing more material than the agency had planned for.
Technicians inspect the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft's heat shield at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo released Jan. 6, 2023. "Some of the expected char material that we would expect coming back home ablated away differently than what our computer models and what our ground testing predicted," Hu said."So we had more liberation of the charred material during reentry before we landed than we had expected."
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