Lockheed Martin is preparing its Orion spacecraft for testing activities at NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Cleveland ahead of the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar orbit test flight, NASA Spaceflight r... Read more
Northrop Grumman has conducted a hot-fire test of an attitude control motor on the Orion spacecraft's crew safety system. NASA said Friday Northrop's ACM technology generated over 7K... Read more
Lockheed Martin finished constructing the Orion spacecraft’s crew capsule ahead of NASA’s planned Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence announced during his visit... Read more
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing technologies designed to support NASA’s robotic and manned missions to the moon by 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Read more
NASA engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are expected in the coming weeks to integrate the crew module with the service module for the agency’s Orion spacecraft in preparation f... Read more
Raytheon has partnered with NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory to develop equipment and procedures for safely recovering astronauts from the Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule upon its reen... Read more
Lockheed Martin and NASA demonstrated the capability of the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system through the Ascent Abort-2 test conducted Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Fl... Read more
NASA is set to demonstrate the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system on July 2 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Space News reported Sunday. Read more
Aerojet Rocketdyne has shipped eight auxiliary engines, which will regulate the Orion spacecraft’s trajectory, for NASA’s second Artemis mission. Read more
Lockheed Martin has received an Aerojet Rocketdyne-made jettison motor designed for the launch abort system of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Read more
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
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
NASA Completes Hot-Fire Testing of Orion Launch Abort Jettison Motor
NASA’s Redstone Test Center has concluded hot-fire tests of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-built jettison motor for the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system. Read more