‘Heart’ of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft to Undergo Stress Tests
A critical piece of NASA’s Orion spacecraft — which may carry astronauts to deep-space locations like Mars — is about to begin a series of crucial tests to determine whether or not it can withstand the rigors of spaceflight. The Orion service module, built by...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, December 3, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Aerojet Rocketdyne provides critical 3-D manufactured components for the NASA/Lockheed Martin Orion crew exploration capsule. Russia cuts its...
Aerojet Rocketdyne 3-D prints Orion’s nozzle extensions
NASA’s Orion partner Aerojet Rocketdyne has recently completed a milestone in additive manufacturing–12 nozzle extensions for Orion’s crew module reaction control system (RCS). The nozzle extensions will provide greater stability to the RCS system...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA and the European Space Agency demonstrate plans to cooperate in the human exploration of deep space with development of the Orion crew...
Orion’s engineering legacy
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is a mix of old and new: the tried and tested Apollo-era capsule design elements have been married with Shuttle-era crew amenities and modern technology. With the ability to carry a crew of four, a “glass cockpit” digital...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Europe’s service module contribution to NASA’s Orion crew exploration capsule could pave the way for the participation of European...
Tune into today for news on the Orion Spacecraft
NASA Television will broadcast an event marking the arrival of a full-size test version of the service module provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 30 at the agency’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 30, 2015
Monday’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Space Launch System will carry CubeSats aboard Exploration Mission-1, the agency’s 2018 inaugural SLS test flight of the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Though risky, human space exploration is worth the challenge, according to a South Carolina editorial. Popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse...Space Talk
@SpaceArchivist_ Yes, the LVSA might be a slight issue, so try it whichever way works best for you!
as for KSP, I appreciate the offer, but i love to show off my own KSP stock stuff so ill probably do that myself, but i do thank you for the offer!
@SpaceArchivist_ could you replace the ICPS with centaur V?
I'm working on a video about SLS centaur V, and one of the points im going to discuss is how massively overkill current SLS is for CV, and that this, much smaller SLS could also do such a thing, and would like to give the audience a
@SpaceArchivist_ and of course, Ill credit you in video!
What a strange configuration
Hey as a completely unrelated fun fact did y'all know that Orion can only be integrated vertically?
We're not rebuilding the same pad for New Glenn. We're moving to a horizontal/vertical hybrid configuration to get us flying again this year at 36A. We were already working on something similar for 9x4 at 36B. Let me explain what that means. We mate the stages horizontally in
@ThePrimalDino @Tygget getting Orion to LLO with CV would definitely require a refill in LEO, and at that point it would make more sense to just use a beefier cislunar transporter
@serendistant @Tygget yup. especially given how tall that rocket would be. it would be very unwieldy
We’re at the Great American State Fair in DC, where we’ve got live feed of NASA astronauts @Astro_Jessica and @Astro_ChrisW replacing a wrist joint on the @Space_Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm during their spacewalk! Tune in here: http://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/us-spacewalk-95/
