Test of the Orion Crew Vehicle’s Parachutes,
April 17, 2012, Photo credit: NASA
The test model of the Orion spacecraft with its parachutes was tested high above the skies over Arizona
on Feb. 29. Photo credit: NASA
attachments have changed and evolved to meet the customer’s requirements. T e tests will continue and changes will be made as required,” explains WireCo’s Humiston. In 2013, we should see the fi rst test of WireCo
parachute riser assemblies with humans operating the capsule as intended. NASA has plans to launch the Orion into space no later than 2014. Upon its return to Earth, Bamdad plans to research the performance of the fi rst XLT4 to go into space. Since 2007, the Orion program has conducted a vigorous parachute air and ground test program and provided the chutes for NASA’s successful pad abort test in 2010. T e tests improve understanding about the chutes’ technical performance for eventual human-rated certifi cation. T e next parachute test will be conducted this summer. T e Orion project is an engineering endeavor of epic proportions. When
asked about the teams assembled on the project, WireCo’s Humiston mentioned parachute experts and consultants from Lockheed Martin, Jacobs Engineering, Airborne Systems of America, and NASA as a “great group of people to work with, and as you might imagine, they are all rocket scientists.” But even more importantly, these rocket scientists are also a team of pioneers, stretching further into the future of possibility than our current capabilities can provide. As Astronaut Rex Walheim, who fl ew on the fi nal space shuttle mission and has had a leading role in the development of Orion, said, “the capsule can be the principal spacecraft for 30 years of human exploration of the solar system. It’s the fi rst in a line of vehicles that can take us where we’ve never gone before.” As we embark on a mission to go where no man has gone before, companies like WireCo and all of the members of the Orion project are looking beyond horizon, but with one important distinction… to also bring man back safely from where he has never gone before. Additional info on the NASA
Orion Spacecraft program:
http://www.nasa.gov/orion y
WIRECO WORLDGROUP: A HISTORY IN NEW FRONTIERS
the highest quality products and providing the best value added services possible for our customers.” Hornaday explains “we have a breadth and quality of products that is unmatched in our industry, the most advanced research and development eff ort, and the most productive capacity to serve customers around the world.” According to Hornaday, this allows WireCo to “actively market similar products for the same applications at diff erent price points based on the market conditions through our brand strategy.” Hornaday refl ects that this strategy is not just a result of recent M&A’s, but has been a business approach for years. “We are just as interested in growing our business organically as we are through acquisition.”
Today, WireCo WorldGroup, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, has over 4,500 employees and 20
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manufacturing locations that include the United States, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Canada, Mexico, South America, Africa, and Asia, the company is the largest global manufacturer of high-performance wire rope and a leading worldwide manufacturer of electromechanical (“EM”) cable, synthetic rope, wire rope assemblies and specialty wire worldwide. The Company’s products have a reputation for quality, performance and safety and are marketed under well-known brands such as Union®, MacWhyte®, Casar®, Camesa®, Oliveira®, Wireline Works, Phillystran®, Drumet® and US Reel™, and is the only major wire rope manufacturer in the world to be API certifi ed, Lloyd’s Registered, QPL qualifi ed, AS9100 certifi ed, and ISO-9001 registered.
For more information, visit
www.wirecoworldgroup.com
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