Examples of Ares I in a sentence
Over the last several years, the State and NASA have been working against an overall State investment level of $102 million for the acquisition of manufacturing equipment (Equipment) critical to building Ares I and Ares V hardware and for the design and construction of a new MAF Research & Development Administration Building (Building).
The first crewed flight of Ares I and Orion would still be after the International Space Station is deorbited.
In December 2002, the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Minister of South Korea agreed to conduct a Future of the Alliance study to assess the roles, missions, capabilities, force structure, and stationing of U.S. forces, including having South Korea assume the predominant role in its defense and increasing both South Korean and U.S. involvement in regional security cooperation.
The current Constellation Program plan is to use the government-operated Ares I launch vehicle and the Orion crew capsule.
It has the advantage of projected very high ascent crew safety, but it delays the development of the Ares V heavy lift vehicle until after the independently operated Ares I is developed.
Ares I was designed to a high standard in order to provide astronauts with access to low-Earth orbit at lower risk and a considerably higher level of reliability than is available today.
It consists of the content and sequence of that program – de-orbiting the ISS in 2016, developing Orion, Ares I and Ares V, and beginning exploration of the Moon.
The Constellation Program includes: the Ares I launch vehicle, capable of launching astronauts to low-Earth orbit; the Ares V heavy-lift launch vehicle, to send astronauts and equipment to the Moon; the Orion capsule, intended to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit and beyond; and the Altair lunar lander and lunar surface systems astronauts will need to explore the lunar surface.
The current schedule now shows that date as 2015.An independent assessment of the technical, budgetary and schedule risk to the Constellation Program performed for the Committee indicates that an additional delay of at least two years is likely.2 This means that Ares I and Orion will not reach ISS before the Station’s currently planned termination, and the length of the gap in U.S. ability to launch astronauts into space will be no less than seven years.
In the Ares-V-plus-Ares-I system planned by the Constellation program, the Ares I launches the Orion and docks in low-Earth orbit with the Altair lander launched on the Ares V.