Emergency Detection System
{{short description|American crewed rocket monitoring system}}
{{Notability|date=September 2021}}
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
- {{section link|Saturn V Instrument Unit|Emergency detection}}
- Human-rating certification
References
[https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19720017278 NASA Technical Note TN-D6487] (pdf), pp. 3, 6, vii
Category:Spacecraft components
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