Second Test of Supersonic Vehicle Previewed

Sec­ond Test of Super­son­ic Vehi­cle Previewed



NASA,Low-Density Super­son­ic Decelerator,LDSD



The sec­ond flight test of NASA’s Low-Den­si­ty Super­son­ic Decel­er­a­tor (LDSD) was pre­viewed dur­ing a June 1 press brief­ing. LDSD will launch no ear­li­er than 1:30 p.m. EDT (7:30 a.m. HST) Wednes­day, June 3, from the U.S. Navy’s Pacif­ic Mis­sile Range Facil­i­ty (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii. NASA Tele­vi­sion cov­er­age will begin at 1 p.m. EDT (7 a.m. HST). The project is designed to inves­ti­gate and test break­through tech­nolo­gies for land­ing future robot­ic and human Mars mis­sions and safe­ly return­ing large pay­loads to Earth. The test, per­formed over the Pacif­ic Ocean, will sim­u­late the super­son­ic entry and descent speeds at which the space­craft would be trav­el­ing through the Mar­t­ian atmosphere.



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