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Officials at the American space agency are getting closer to their objective of testing the new Orion spacecraft by next year. They set 2013 as a deadline for the first test flight of the new capsule even though the carrier rocket will only be ready in 2017 at the earliest.
The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPC... |
12 January 2012
10:50 GMT |
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The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is the next-generation spacecraft NASA is developing for deep-space exploration, and is currently scheduled to start ferrying astronauts to space in 2021. In late December, 2011, NASA conducted a new drop test of the capsule, in order to verify its parachutes.
The test was... |
4 January 2012
04:22 GMT |
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This amazing image captured by a NASA photographer was snapped fractions of a second before the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) prototype impacted the surface of the water during a recent wet drop test.
Such tests are being conducted in order to determine how space capsule will react upon impacting the ocea... |
10 November 2011
04:42 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency announce that NASA wants to introduce a new clause in a contract it signed with Lockheed Martin Space Systems, concerning the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). The agency wants the spacecraft to fly in 2014.
Lockheed engineers are in charge of desig... |
9 November 2011
03:32 GMT |
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The US Senate's version of the 2012 budget leaves NASA with 2.5 percent less money than the 2011 levels, therefore forcing the agency to make do with its lowest level of funding since 2009. But the newly-approved document also contains some good news for the organization.
The Senate Appropriations Committee ... |
20 September 2011
03:06 GMT |
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During a conference held yesterday, September 14, officials at the American space agency announced the designs for the newest vehicle NASA will start developing, the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket. The machine is impressive indeed.
Its main role is to be capable of putting between 70 and 129 tons (150... |
15 September 2011
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The first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) has just entered the first stages of assembly, officials from the American space agency announced yesterday. This marks an impressive milestone in the quest to explore worlds beyond our own.
Orion was formerly part of Project Constellation, the Bush-era... |
10 September 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Engineers at the Lockheed Martin Corporation announce that the NASA Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) has just started another round of harsh tests. The trials are meant to assess the vehicle's compliance with the guidelines the American space agency put forth for its next spacecraft.The MPCV is an essenti... |
19 August 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Officials at prime contractor Lockheed Martin announce that engineering teams at the Denver, Colorado-based Waterton space systems facility have finished assembling the first flight-worthy Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. With this tremendous milestone achieved, the company is now ready to move further to the next s... |
4 July 2011
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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour completed the first-ever test of the new navigation system that will go on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) yesterday. During the maneuvers, the spacecraft approached the ISS behaving like the new space capsule. The latter is currently being built by main contr... |
31 May 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Yesterday, May 24, the American space agency announced that it plans to conduct deep space exploration using the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), a spacecraft developed by Lockheed Martin, and based on Project Constellation's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The corporation now salutes the official decision.Whe... |
25 May 2011
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On Tuesday, May 24, the American space agency made an important announcement, that has considerable implications for the future of space exploration. NASA officials said in a teleconference that the next major spacecraft the agency will operate is the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV).
This vehicle is based on conce... |
25 May 2011
01:39 GMT |
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In a clear demonstration that you can indeed do more with less, officials at Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Corp. announce that they will accelerate the development of the Orion spacecraft, and that they will be aiming to carry out a manned lunar flyby by 2016. At this point, the organization only has access ... |
26 April 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Experts have recently demonstrated that the ancient Egyptian site of Nabta Playa is in fact one of the oldest astronomical observatories in the world. Archaeologists believe that the location may have been in use between 6,000 and 8.000 years ago. The new discovery was made after an astrophysicist analyzed the way st... |
18 April 2011
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Yesterday, March 21, Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin unveiled the first completed Orion spacecraft, which it developed for the American space agency. At the same time, it announced the inauguration of a new, state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC).These were two of the most ambitious project... |
22 March 2011
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When it comes to any sort of device, the marketing efforts play a pivotal role, and Samsung decided to do something about its own tactics when it comes to application processors, hence the latest press release on its part.Smasung is a well known maker of many sorts of semiconductors, application processors being jus... |
11 February 2011
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Officials with Lockheed Martin announce that the company has just sent out the first Orion spacecraft structure today, out of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. The vehicle is headed for Lockheed facilities situated in Denver, Colorado, where it will be put through a wide series of tests me... |
10 February 2011
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According to officials at Lockheed Martin, the corporation is currently developing an action plan that would see the first Orion space capsule being launched as soon as 2013. The test would see the Crew Exploration Vehicle taking off unmanned, so that experts can test all of its systems.At this point, Lockheed Martin... |
1 December 2010
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Experts with Lockheed Martin have begun pitching a new mission called L2-Farside Mission, which revolves around using the NASA-ordered Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, under development at the corporation.The American space agency has officially canceled Project Constellation, and with it the chances it had of going b... |
23 November 2010
11:08 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is getting ready to bring to the market a new tablet PC, supposedly the successor of Galaxy Tab, which was showcased at the ARM Technical Symposium 2010 in Taipei this week.The upcoming device supposedly sports the name of Orion, the same as the dual-core Orion pro... |
19 November 2010
08:32 GMT |
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A new view of the Orion Nebula taken with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope is revealing the existence of a large number of newly-forming blue stars, inside massive stellar nurseries. These cosmic structures are in fact molecular clouds of gas and dust, which tend to come together in very large formations, under the in... |
27 October 2010
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Under the new bill that was passed by Congress in late September, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle project is severely underfunded, and risks losing its stamina, lawmakers in Colorado and officials at Lockheed Martin say.They explain that the new fiscal year is crucial stage in the development of America's rep... |
20 October 2010
03:18 GMT |
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NASA is organizing a cross-country trek for a full-scale mock-up of the Orion Launch Abort System (LAS), the segment of the rocket that is supposed to ferry astronauts to safety in case of an emergency.As part of the canceled Project Constellation, the LAS was supposed to sit atop the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, ... |
18 October 2010
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Scientists at Lockheed Martin announce that the efforts to construct the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle are currently progressing smoothly, and that the spacecraft will most likely be ready by 2013. At this point, the Lockheed-led engineering crew in charge of creating the Orion has begun lean assembly pathfinding op... |
22 September 2010
04:18 GMT |
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A study on how an asteroid mission might work has already been made by Lockheed Martin, the company that has been building NASA's Orion space capsule.Next year, NASA would have completely retired its three remaining shuttles, and leave the transportation of crew and cargo to the ISS to the Russians, Japanese and... |
30 August 2010
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Even if theoretically this should not happen, a Senate bill gives NASA precise instructions on how it should construct its next generation of heavy-lift delivery systems.Experts with various panels and committees in the US Congress have taken a deep interest in the American space agency's future, ever since US P... |
26 August 2010
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Even though if the American space agency has yet to decide the faith of its manned space exploration plans, Project Constellation is continuing onwards undisturbed, officials at NASA say. Even if the plan set forth by US President Barack Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden get approved, the agency will not st... |
19 August 2010
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Though space agencies have carried out the procedure successfully many times, docking to the International Space Station (ISS) is no easy task. Still, both manned and unmanned spacecraft need to do it once every couple of months, in order to sustain the six-astronaut crew currently in orbit. In order to address this ... |
27 July 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Even though the faith of Project Constellation is in doubt, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are still continuing their investigations on how to make the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle safer. At this point, the space capsule is destined to serve only as an escape pod on the International Space Station (ISS)... |
21 July 2010
03:59 GMT |
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The American space agency has been given a week to come up with new documents detailing cost estimates and possible schedules concerning the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Originally a part of Project Constellation – the ambitious initiative to return humans to the Moon by 2020 – the capsule is currently... |
12 June 2010
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Officials at NASA announce the successful completion of the first test firing of the Launch Abort System (LAS) that will go on the new Orion space capsule. Though the spacecraft has been stripped down to an unmanned escape pod for the International Space Station (ISS), the emergency system is still very important, an... |
7 May 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Arguably the most important part of any spacecraft – as far as crew safety goes anyway – is the Launch Abort System. This is the mechanism that ensures astronauts stand most chances of survival in case something goes awry during the launch sequence, and when reaching orbit is no longer possible. As part o... |
6 May 2010
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Project Constellation is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious space programs ever devised. It was set up under then-President George Bush and aimed at developing new spacecrafts and delivery system to return humans to the Moon. But President Barack Obama proposed that the initiative be canceled, in favor of supporti... |
14 April 2010
04:42 GMT |
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On Thursday, March 18, NASA contractor Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested a new escape rocket motor at one of its facilities. The device was originally developed for integration on the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, which was a part of the larger Project Constellation. However, under the budget proposal that US Presid... |
20 March 2010
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Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have just released a new image of a neglected corner of the Orion Constellation, which depicts the delicate and beautiful nebula NGC 1788. The space structure is an active stellar nursery, which is capable of producing many new stars. The amazing level of detail i... |
3 March 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Though the American Administration is proposing to shut down Project Constellation in 2011, when the new fiscal year begins, funding continues to be supplied for the current approach to space exploration. As if to show White House officials that the Project is the way to go, experts at Lockheed Martin, one of the mai... |
2 March 2010
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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have recently used their newest observatory, VISTA, to capture an amazing, new view of the Orion nebula, one of the most renowned structures in space. Because it was taken in infrared wavelengths, the new image was also able to penetrate the very thick layers of ... |
10 February 2010
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Officials at the Alliant Techsystems (ATK) have recently confirmed that the launch abort engine that will need to equip the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle – as part of Project Constellation – has been fully tested and reviewed. They say that the readiness trials showed that all eight thrusters that equipp... |
18 December 2009
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For a long time, policymakers have dreamed about going to the Moon, or Mars, but also to near-Earth Objects, a class of celestial bodies including asteroids and meteorites, that are large enough to handle a spacecraft landing on them. Over recent months, this plan has been getting increased support from the American ... |
24 November 2009
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Massive stars are giants several hundred times the mass of our Sun, which have the ability to form neutron stars and black holes at the end of their burning cycle. They are a rare occurrence in the Universe, so the processes involved in their birth sequences have been very little understood until now. With the help o... |
17 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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For the first time in more than two decades, NASA is working on a new class of rockets, the ARES range, a part of Project Constellation. Scheduled to replace the aging shuttle fleet by 2015, the Project has been plagued with controversies ever since it was first accepted, and all of its components have been openly cr... |
29 September 2009
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The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, the segment of Project Constellation that is planned to take astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the Moon starting 2015, has recently passed its preliminary design review test. Even though this is good news, its faith is still unclear, considering the fact that the future of the ARES... |
2 September 2009
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As we were reporting yesterday, NASA and ATK Space Systems, a division of the Brigham City, Utah-based Alliant Techsystems, attempted to test-fire the newly finished ARES I rocket motor for the first time. However, a minor glitch caused the test to be postponed until Tuesday, officials at the space agency and the con... |
28 August 2009
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In spite of the recent controversies surrounding Project Constellation – NASA's new plan of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 – the American space agency is pushing ahead with its scheduled tests. The newly completed rocket will undergo its first, full-scale engine test today, at a facility ow... |
27 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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A panel of Air Force safety experts has recently shown in a memo that NASA's newly developed rocket escape system, destined for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, might not work in the event of a failed landing, and that, subsequently, the crew and craft could easily die in the process. The space agency has rep... |
9 June 2009
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NASA's ARES I rocket will be a two-stage launch vehicle, designed to carry the future Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to Earth's orbit. But its engineers envisioned the spacecraft as having a reusable first-stage motor, which means that it would have to somehow be recovered after each launch. Experts agree t... |
21 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Policymakers in the United States are currently struggling to pass legislation that would ensure the operation of the nation's shuttle fleet even beyond 2010. More specifically, US House and Senate representatives are struggling to eliminate the deadline for the retirement of the shuttles, currently scheduled fo... |
30 April 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Off the eastern coast of central Florida, a small and tightly secured portion of the Atlantic ocean is home to a very peculiar site. A white capsule, adorned with three orange spheres on its “nose,” floats around in the ocean, surrounded by research vessels and emergency crews, ready to step in if anythin... |
30 April 2009
04:28 GMT |
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The Orion Nebula is, perhaps, one of the most scrutinized objects in the sky, mainly because it can be seen with the naked eye during bright nights. Located in the Orion Constellation, some 1,270 light-years away from Earth, the giant formation has been recently proven to be the stage for the formation of countless n... |
21 April 2009
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The American space agency may not be able to bring the new ARES rockets and the Orion Crew Exploration vehicle online by 2015, as original plans predicted, a new report by the Congressional Budget Office watchdog states. According to the paper, the date could be pushed back to late 2016, under the current funding sch... |
21 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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