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Exclusive images of Endeavours damaged tiles

Author:Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 2:46 pm

Date:August 14th, 2007

Source Site:zdnet


August 14th, 2007

Exclusive images of Endeavours damaged tiles

Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 2:46 pm

Categories: Space Aerospace, Science Nature

Tags: Image, Tile, Roland Piquepaille

Neptec Design Group, a Canadian company and a NASA prime contractor for 25 space missions, was kind enough to send me exclusive images of Endeavours damaged tiles during its last take-off. So here are some of these pictures provided by Neptec. For more information, please read a recent interview with Iain Christie, the Neptecs president.

A damaged tile of Endeavour

Above is an excerpt from a Neptec video showing a damaged tile of the Endeavour shuttle.

The damaged area on Endeavours thermal protection system

The image above shows a false color scan of the damaged area on Endeavours thermal protection system produced by the Neptecs Laser Camera System (LCS).

3D scan of the damage on Endeavours thermal protection system (image 1)

The two images above and below show the damages on Endeavours thermal protection system.

3D scan of the damage on Endeavours thermal protection system (image 2)

Finally, here is another image created by the Neptecs LCS and which was extracted from a video which is accessible here.

3D scan of the damage on Endeavours thermal protection system (image 3)

[Disclaimer: I dont have any financial ties with Neptec, even if Ive already written several times about what the company does for space exploration. Here are links to my previous posts.]

Sources: Neptec, August 14, 2007

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Roland Piquepaille lives in Paris, France, and he spent most of his career in software, mainly for high performance computing and visualization companies. For disclosures on Rolands industry affiliations, click here.

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