February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... lead and/or water shields, this represents an additional mass to place in orbit. A good solution, which originated from Lockheed Martin’s Mars Base Camp (2018), is to use fuel storage as a radiation shield. Microgravity, on the other hand, does not...
02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... provide ESA with ISS missions to 2020 and beyond. The Orion capsule itself is being built by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It is based on the Apollo capsule approach, but contains 50 per cent more volume and possesses advanced...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... ever worn on a lunar spacewalk, which will be up for online bidding on October 15. Finally, United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, held its 100th successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday. The Atlas V rocket...
18 November 2015
Elon Musk's SpaceX may partner with the U.S. government
... early as 2018 in a joint satellite launching venture. At this time, after United Launch Alliance, a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, withdrew its bid for a U.S. Air Force global positioning satellite supplier contract, SpaceX remains...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
... also gave us insight into how we could improve the way we build this essential element of the spacecraft.” Lockheed Martin Orion, NASA's next generation spacecraft, will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into...
11 April 2016
The 32nd Space Symposium Opens
... Halawi (CEO, Thuraya), dr. Brad Tousley (Director, Tactical Technology Office, DARPA), Christina Bain (systems engineer, Lockheed Martin) and many others. The Symposium's program will also include a presentation of the General James E. Hill Lifetime...
