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Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin and the European Service Module (ESM) manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space .
As part of the development of Project Orion, to garner funding from the military, a derived "space battleship" space-based nuclear-blast-hardened nuclear-missile weapons platform was mooted in the 1960s by the United States Air Force. It would comprise the USAF "Deep Space Bombardment Force". [33] [34] [35]
Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. A design was formed at General Atomics during the late 1950s and early 1960s, with the idea of reacting small directional nuclear explosives utilizing a variant of the Teller–Ulam two-stage bomb design against a large steel pusher plate attached to the spacecraft ...
Orion, as a later design, after the initial plans for the Crew Exploration Vehicle led to development of the Orion. The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) was a component of the U.S. NASA Vision for Space Exploration plan. A competition was held to design a spacecraft that could carry humans to the destinations envisioned by the plan.
NASA's Orion capsule has reached the farthest distance from Earth of any spacecraft intended to carry humans, and it sent back incredible new pictures of the surface of the moon. CBS News ...
Orion USA: Lockheed Martin Astrium: Lunar, Mars: Space Launch System: 4 [note 16] 3.3: 5: 8,900 capsule + 12,300 service module Solar panels Parachute splashdown (two drogues, three pilots and three mains) 2025 (2014) Testing: 0 (2) [note 17] Mengzhou China: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation: LEO, Lunar: Long March 10: 7: 8.8: ...
Uncharted Territory and Bavaria Fiction are charting a course to the stars with “Orion,” a relaunch of the classic German science fiction series “Raumpatrouille — Die phantastischen ...
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