Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has said the company aims to support U.S. national security efforts and help reduce the country's dependence on Russian-built eng... Read more
NASA and Northrop Grumman’s innovation systems sector completed a test series for cislunar habitat modules the company is offering to the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships... Read more
Lockheed Martin has unveiled new designs for a human lunar lander that would support NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon’s surface by 2024 and use components from the firm's Orio... Read more
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NASA to begin construction work on the components of an Orion spacecraft that is expected to take off by 2022 to perform the crewed Exploration Mission-2,... Read more
Northrop Grumman has evaluated a motor for the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft through a ground-firing test held at its Promontory, Utah-based facility. The abort motor... Read more
The Airbus-built service module for NASA’s uncrewed Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft has arrived at Kennedy Space Center to undergo a series of tests and integration work in preparatio... Read more
Charles Precourt, vice president and general manager of propulsion at Northrop Grumman, has said contractors need to consider affordability, survivability and sustainability as they work on... Read more
Aerojet Rocketdyne has concluded a test of a thruster system for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-1. The company... Read more
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NanoRacks to seek concepts of commercial payloads that could fly on upcoming missions of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed said Friday the market assessmen... Read more
Northrop Grumman has completed two motors for use in upcoming tests of a system designed to separate the Orion crew module from the spacecraft’s launch vehicle in the event of an emerg... Read more
Lockheed Martin’s space business has begun to consider the possibility of providing companies and researchers a chance to fly experiments aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Denver Business... Read more
Representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency and industry have announced that the first service module for the Orion spacecraft will be delivered to the U.S. in late October, Space N... Read more
Jacobs Engineering Group and NASA have concluded tests of a parachute system that would support re-entry activities of the Orion spacecraft. The team conducted the Capsule Parachute Assembly... Read more
Jacobs Engineering Group has transported to a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida a 380-foot-tall mobile launcher designed to support NASA’s Exploration Mission-1. The company said... Read more
NASA Receives Orion Launch Abort Motor After Northrop-Led Tests
Northrop Grumman has delivered the inert abort motor of the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system, which is designed to ensure the safety of the spacecraft’s crew, to NASA’s Kennedy Space C... Read more