In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, a United Space Alliance technician uses a laser tool to take step and gap measurements on Thermal Protection System tiles …

The orbiter is the manned spacecraft which makes up one element of the Space Shuttle system. It can transport into near earth orbit (area in space from 115 to 690 miles from the earth’s surface) cargo …

Normally, the orbiter is pointed in the proper direction at the start of a burn and only minor steering corrections are made during a burn with the OMS thrust vector control (TVC) system.

Introduction to Space Shuttle Orbiter Subsystems Professor Aaron Cohen Space Shuttle Orbiter Program Manager MIT 16.885x (Lecture 5)

The purpose of the thermal protec-tion system is not only to protect the orbiter from the searing heat of re-entry, but also to protect the airframe and major systems

Orbiter was one of the first operational applications of aircraft flight control. The design expanded on the by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center with a GN&C system responds to software commands …

The thermal protection for the Orbiter is designed to operate successfully over a spectrum of environments typical of both aircraft and spacecraft. During the ascent and entry phases of the …