02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... eight qualification tests completed at the end of 2018. Engineers are making progress building and testing the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 1, the first uncrewed mission with the SLS rocket – an integrated system traveling thousands of miles...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
... where it will be put together with the rest of the Orion spacecraft. This is the first time that NASA will use a European...system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft. The Orion spacecraft, along with the Space Launch System (SLS) ...
30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
..., engineers have begun subjecting candidates to a series of vibration tests at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Orion spacecraft is similar to NASA’s Apollo capsule but will carry up to six astronauts instead of three (as Apollo did) but...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
...kilograms,” he said. However, whether or not this payload can then be transferred to Earth in its entirety inside the Orion spacecraft is not so clear cut. In presentations by NASA officials at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration and Analysis...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... for NASA’s first human deep-space exploration mission, scheduled to launch in 2022 onboard the Orion spacecraft. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for long-duration, deep-space exploration by humans. Harris was selected by Lockheed Martin...
04 February 2021
Three more service modules for Artemis to be built in Europe
... in Europe. The European Service Module will be used to fly astronauts to the Moon. As the powerhouse for the Orion spacecraft it provides propulsion and the consumables astronauts need to stay alive. David Parker, ESA’s director of Human and...
