NASA will need another set of Orion and Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle hardware for its Artemis Program goal of returning Americans to the surface of the Moon by the end of 2024, but the contracts to buy all the parts and put them together aren’t completely in place. The civilian space agency is now moving to start building a new set of the critical path “long lead” items for the elements that took the longest to build for the first joint Orion/SLS mission now expected to fly in 2021.
Airbus Defence and Space is in the home stretch of work to ship the first…
The Orion European Service Module (ESM) Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) is in the opening phases…
NASA is continuing to work towards the historic maiden launch of the Space Launch System (SLS),…
The 404-day clock to connect, checkout, and test the first integrated Orion spacecraft for its…
Testing of the Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft resumed at the White…
Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin has the spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis III and IV lunar…
NASASpaceflight interviewed two speakers and subject matter experts about Orion, the European Service Module (ESM),…
Airbus and ESA invited media for the Moon Media Day to show and talk about…
The European Space Agency (ESA) is providing the European Service Module (ESM), the provider of…
With the Artemis 1 mission just weeks away from launch, teams at NASA and the…
Lockheed Martin has completed the first-time power-up of the Orion capsule for the Artemis 2…
The arrival of the second Orion European Service Module (ESM) at the Kennedy Space Center…
The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is set up back at home in…
Riding aboard NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft, the Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1…
The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission is about…
NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and contractor personnel conducted an Abort To Orbit (ATO) test…
NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, is finishing preparations for pre-flight testing of the…
While NASA pushes it Space Launch System (SLS) to make a mid-2020 debut, Orion also…
While final assembly continues on the Orion spacecraft that will make the program’s first solo…
