Emergency Detection System

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Short description: American crewed rocket monitoring system


An Emergency Detection System (EDS) is a system that is used on crewed rocket missions. It monitors critical launch vehicle and spacecraft systems and issues status, warning and abort commands to the crew during their mission to low Earth orbit. It can trigger the Launch Abort System which will take the astronauts to safety.

See also

  • Saturn V Instrument Unit - Emergency detection
  • Human-rating certification

References

NASA Technical Note TN-D6487 (pdf), pp. 3, 6, vii




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