ORION NEWS

NASA Administrator to View Orion Spacecraft and MAVEN Launch Preparations

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Nov 15^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will view the latest progress on NASA's Orion spacecraft and launch preparations...

NASA's Orion Sees Flawless Fairing Separation in Second Test

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Nov 8^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The three massive panels protecting a test version of NASA's Orion multipurpose crew vehicle successfully fell away...

Lockheed Martin Team Tests Orion's Protective Panels

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Nov 8^th 2013 |

SUNNYVALE, Calif, Nov. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Testing at the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Sunnyvale facility in California using a series of precisely-timed, explosive...

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Comes to Life

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Oct 29^th 2013 |

NASA's first-ever deep space craft, Orion, has been powered on for the first time, marking a major milestone in the final year of preparations for flight. Orion's avionics system was installed on the crew module an...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's first-ever deep space craft, Orion, has been powered on for the first time, marking a major milestone in the final year of preparations for flight.

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Mon, Oct 28^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's first-ever deep space craft, Orion, has been powered on f...

NASA Spacecraft Hardware Ready for Pressure Testing in Preparation for Upcoming Orion Launch

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, Oct 22^nd 2013 |

HAMPTON, Va., Oct. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The design and fabrication of critical flight hardware that wi...

Lockheed Martin Delivers Upgraded Orion In 10 Months

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Jul 26^th 2013 |

GREENVILLE, S.C., July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] achieved an unprecedented milestone by delivering a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP...

Tenth Parachute Test For NASA's Orion Adds 10,000 Feet Of Success

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Jul 25^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA's new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one...

Ball Aerospace Orion Cameras Installed by Lockheed Martin for EFT-1

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Jul 17^th 2013 |

BOULDER, Colo., July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. flight cameras have been installed on the Orion Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1)...

NASA Invites Media, Public To Hangout At Live Orion Parachute Test

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Jul 17^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, July 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. EDT ...

NASA Invites Media To View Orion Heat Shield Near Boston

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Jul 10^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA officials will visit Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, Mass., Wednesday, July 17, to view progress being ...

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Proves Sound Under Pressure

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, Jun 6^th 2013 |

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a month of being poked, prodded and pressurized in ways that mimicked the stresses of spaceflight, NASA's Ori...

Lockheed Martin Hosting Media To Learn About NASA's Orion Spacecraft

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Tue, May 14^th 2013 |

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --WHAT: Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and NASA are building the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Exploration Vehicle, a new spacecra...

NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Team Ready For California Interviews

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, May 10^th 2013 |

HOUSTON, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is building a new spacecraft to carry humans farther than ever before ? and Northern California media are invited ...

Success Continues As NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Thu, May 2^nd 2013 |

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wedne...