October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... for beyond-LEO space exploration since the Apollo programme. Crew radiation protection is a design driver of the Orion spacecraft and it includes a storm shelter as a method to protect crew from intense SPE. The storm shelter is an internal area...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
NASA is working on an improved heat shield for the Orion spacecraft using data gathered by Orion on its Exploration Flight Test -1. The heat shield will be used for Orion's Exploration Mission (EM) -1, planned to take off no earlier than the end of ...
24 August 2022
Moon mission's human-rated European Service Module is giant leap for ESA
... assessment of the preparedness of the 98-metre high stack, consisting of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft currently sitting on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida - NASA declared it was all systems go. The...
03 September 2015
Orion and NASA’s Mission to Mars at IAC 2015
... that “every day we are making great progress on the design and build of the next Orion spacecraft. This is the spacecraft that will take humans to Mars one day, and I’m looking forward to sharing where we are on that journey...
02 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
... modules for NASA’s four crew Orion MPCV deep-space capsule. The module is to be constructed at an Airbus facility in Bremen, Germany. Based on the successful Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo spacecraft that has been resupplying the International...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B in November 2022. Lessons ... astronauts (each paying $155 million) travelled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS for a 17-day mission. As a start-up,...
