Tag: Lockheed-Martin
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Final assembly and test milestones on tap for NASA’s first Orion moon ship
The Orion crew module for the Artemis 1 mission, an unpiloted test flight to lunar orbit and back, completed a direct field acoustic test earlier this year inside the Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA The pressurized crew module and European-built service module for NASA’s first Orion…
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Photos: NASA conducts key Orion abort test
The Orion test vehicle lifts off on a converted Peacekeeper booster at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) Tuesday from pad 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by James Rainier NASA simulated an in-flight launch abort of an Orion crew capsule high above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, in a…
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NASA successfully tests Orion launch abort system before moon flights
Officials hailed an action-packed three-minute test flight Tuesday over Cape Canaveral that exercised the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort rocket, a key safety system on the capsule NASA is developing to carry astronauts back to the moon. “We couldn’t have asked for a better flight, better mission, better performance,” said Don Reed, head of the…
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Watch replays of the Orion inflight abort test
Watch replays from launch pad and tracking cameras of the Orion AA-2 inflight abort test conducted at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 2, 2019. Video: NASA.
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Live coverage: NASA conducts Orion abort test over Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the Orion spacecraft’s ascent abort vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SFN Clean Feed”] [tabbyending] NASA TV coverage of the Orion ascent abort test begins at 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT), and…
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Critical abort test of NASA’s Orion crew capsule set for Tuesday
The abort test booster and Orion test article stand at Space Launch Complex-46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 27. Credit: NASA A three-minute test flight Tuesday morning over Cape Canaveral will help ensure NASA’s Orion crew capsule — the vehicle being built to carry astronauts back to the moon — can safely…
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Orion data recorders come with return-to-sender instructions
Jenny Devolites, NASA’s test conductor for the Orion ascent abort test, holds an Orion flight data recorder during a press conference Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now NASA has a plan to retrieve 12 ejectable data recorders released from an Orion test capsule in the waters off Cape Canaveral following a launch abort test Tuesday, but…
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Lockheed Martin studies how to use a cloud of satellites for space missions
NASA and Lockheed Martin have been studying how small satellites could be knit together into a distributed swarm. (NASA Illustration) More and more computing is being done in the cloud, but so far, the cloud-based approach hasn’t been applied in space. Lockheed Martin is thinking about changing that. The aerospace giant has already registered two…
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Final ‘single stick’ Delta 4-Medium rocket arrives at Florida launch pad
The core of United Launch Alliance’s final Delta 4-Medium rocket rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad May 28. Credit: United Launch Alliance Ground crews finished the initial build-up of the last “single stick” medium-lift variant of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral last week in…
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NASA to shut down Spitzer Space Telescope early next year
This infrared view of the butterfly-shaped W40 nebula, a star-forming cloud of gas and dust 1,400 light-years from Earth, was captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech After a search for an outside funding source turned up empty, NASA plans to end observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope in January to conclude a 16-year…