2009
Assembly Instructions for the Ares-1X
Building the SRB segment
Glue the long tab to the back of one side and roll the SRB into a cylinder.
Seam
Cover the seam with the Systems Tunnel tray
Add the bottom support
Glue the SRB aft skirt aligning the large square (arrow) with the Systems Tunnel Tray.
Add the bottom supports for the aft skirt.
Add the SRB nozzle
Building the Upper Stage
Seam
Building the Upper Stage is similar to the SRB assembly, by gluing the tab to one side and rolling the whole structure into a tube. Then the Fuel line is glued covering the seam. Also, a small hatch door needs to be glued.
Fuel line
Add supports to the top and bottom of the Upper Stage.
Adding the 5th segment to the SRB
Roll the 5th segment into a cylinder just like the SRB and glue the fuel line to the seam. Note that the fuel line starts at the bottom but does not reach the top.
Glue the Connector to the inside of the top of the SRB in preparation to adding the 5th segment.
connector
Glue the 5th segment to the SRB stack via the connector.
Adding the Frustum
Align the 2 vertical markings
Align the 2 vertical markings
Building the Orion mockup stage and LAS
Service Module
Spacecraft Adapter
Glue both parts aligning the vertical markings.
Align the gray areas
Glue the Launch Abort System (LAS) bottom cone.
Cone where the LAS is inserted.
LAS
Gray area is covered
Area inserted into the LAS cone.
The 4 rockets are folded with the gray area showing inside. The small tabs of each rocket are glued to a small rectangular area on the LAS.
Adding extra parts
Note that the model used for this presentation is a draft version model lacking details. The final version is slightly different.
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