Marking a significant milestone in the Artemis 2 space mission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unveiled its Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, with Artemis 2 being th...
The Orion spacecraft is composed of three main components: the crew module, the launch abort system and the European Service Module (ESM). The ESM provides support to the Orion’s crew module from launch through separation prior to entry. ...
Human deep space exploration begins at Lockheed Martin with the design and development of NASA's Orion spacecraft, set to carry astronauts back to the Moon.
Cleveland OH (SPX) Dec 18, 2024 - Making the voyage 1.4 million miles around the Moon and back - the farthest a spacecraft built for humans has ever gone - the Orion spacecraft has faced a battery of tests over the years. Though Ori
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft captured this selfie shortly after completing an engine burn that inserted the capsule into lunar orbit on Nov. 25, 2022. (Image credit: NASA TV) NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is now orbiting the moon. Orion had been making its circuitous way to ...
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft successfully completed a lunar departure burn on Thursday (Dec. 1) to begin heading home after successful orbits of the moon.
engines ignited and throttled up at 7:05 a.m. EST (GMT-5). Generating nearly 2 million pounds of thrust and a fiery torrent of exhaust, the Delta 4's three RS-68 engines quickly pushed the 1.6-million-pound launcher and spacecraft away from Pad 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force ...
"There's always a danger of over hype, but we have now built a spacecraft that is human rated for the first time in 42 years," he said in an interview with CBS News. "And so from that standpoint, I think it's really significant. ...
Lockheed Martin and ASRC Federal Data Solutions are using Hololens 2 headsets to create spacecraft. Currently, the companies are using the AR headset to building spacecraft for Artemis II.
Lockheed Martin has opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) centre at Kennedy Space Center. The STAR centre features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA's