NASA's Mission management in Houston was ready to superintend the whole 4.30 -hour operation. The flight program loaded into Orion's computers well before, permitting the satellite to fly basically on autopilot. Flight controllers might intervene within the event of associate emergency breakdown.
The satellite is rigged with one, 200 sensors to measure everything from heat to vibration to radiation. At eleven feet tall with a sixteen.5-foot base, Orion is larger than the fashionable Phoebus capsules and, obviously, additional advanced. As NASA's program manager Mark Geyer was noted, "the capsule is completely totally different."